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FDR came up with the Good Neighbor Policy before State Farm did… just sayin’.
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Evacuee Property
In remembrance of Executive Order 9066, signed this day in 1942 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, we share a passionate letter written by 25 year-old Yoshio Nakada. Nakada was removed from his citrus ranch near Asuza, California, as a result of the creation of military exclusion areas along the west coast of the United States. Nakada and his family were removed to the Los Angeles County fairgrounds, and later sent to Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming. Relocatees could only take what they could carry, and much of their property was subsequently sold at auction. The U.S. Department of Agriculture War Board for Los Angeles County wrote to Mr. Nakada encouraging him to sell his idle farm equipment rather than letting it go to auction. This letter is his response.
The full text of E.O. 9066 is available on archives.gov
To learn more about the Japanese American experience, visit the Japanese American National Museum.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) as Secretary of Navy at the Brooklyn Navy Yard (NARA) December 12, 1916 (by pingnews.com)
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is pictured here, giving one of his famous radio addresses to the American people. These speeches became popularly known as “fireside chats.” He would speak to the nation about his New Deal, unemployment, and U.S. involvement in World War II.
(Photo: Library of Congress)
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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
