with the advocacy of many asian american members of congress, including norman mineta, they congress eventually passed the civil liberties act of 1988, and this act did issue an official government apology for the incarceration and authorized the restitution payments to the survivors. so this letter right in the case is a letter by president george h.w. bush to one of the survivors of the incarceration camps and. the letter is a letter of apology and also included a payment. the survivor. so the objects in this case relate to the investigations into domestic communism in the early 1950s, done by senator joseph mccarthy of wisconsin. this was the period of the early cold war when there was an intense suspicion of domestic communists, and there was a number of members of congress who were attempting to influence public opinion to go to be against domestic communist holding positions of influence in the united states government and in the country as a whole. so senator joseph mccarthy had given a speech claiming that there were 205 known communists in the department of state. and althou