Enduring the wartime hardships
Earlier that spring, President Bush had invited Mineta and his wife, Deni, to spend time at Camp David, the presidential retreat. One night after dinner, the president asked Mineta about his imprisonment during World War II.
For three hours, Mineta, an 11-term Democratic member of Congress who had served as President Bill Clinton’s secretary of commerce, shared his experience of wartime detention and its effects on him and his family.
This story was first published by The Conversation.
On Feb. 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had issued an executive order authorizing the military to round up and remove people of Japanese descent from their homes on the West Coast. Mineta, his
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