and he said carl bendetsen. and i thought to myself, oh, crap. here's the guy who engineered the evacuation and was the sob who put us in camp. i folded up my paper and said, tom, thanks for the time and left. glen and i walked out of there and went, oh, man. you talk about doing research and knowing who you're talking to about stuff, but, boy, we didn't know a thing about it. but as soon as he said, carl bendetsen, i go, oh, man, just folded up my papers and said, thank you, tom, and walked out of there, and figured i would never get him as a co-sponsor. but we did that. i went to member after member. bob motsui did the same thing, going to members and getting them to sign up as a co-sponsor of the commission bill. >> an important one was jim wright also. >> jim wright was, at that point, the majority leader. no, i'm sorry, he was whip at the time. i went to ask him, and he was a fighter pilot in the south pacific, and he came home on leave in 1944, and then he heard about the camps and the japanese americans in the camps and all that. he said h

and he said carl bendetsen. and i thought to myself, oh, crap. here's the guy who engineered the evacuation and was the sob who put us in camp. i folded up my paper and said, tom, thanks for the time and left. glen and i walked out of there and went, oh, man. you talk about doing research and knowing who you're talking to about stuff, but, boy, we didn't know a thing about it. but as soon as he said, carl bendetsen, i go, oh, man, just folded up my papers and said, thank you, tom, and walked out of there, and figured i would never get him as a co-sponsor. but we did that. i went to member after member. bob motsui did the same thing, going to members and getting them to sign up as a co-sponsor of the commission bill. >> an important one was jim wright also. >> jim wright was, at that point, the majority leader. no, i'm sorry, he was whip at the time. i went to ask him, and he was a fighter pilot in the south pacific, and he came home on leave in 1944, and then he heard about the camps and the japanese americans in the camps and all that. he said h