A prominent Japanese American adviser urged Reagan to veto redress.

Evidence

During a private limousine ride with President Reagan and deputy chief of staff Ken Duberstein, Governor Kean learned that the president had been counseled to veto the bill by one of his main advisers, S. I. Hayakawa, himself a Japanese American and former US senator from California who was a co-sponsor of the legislation establishing the CWRIC. … The governor’s letter reminded Reagan “of his participation in the wartime medal ceremony for a dead Nisei soldier from the 442d R.C.T. who was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross,” that is, for Kazuo Masuda. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 225

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the larger CWRIC/redress legislative history arc; Hayakawa co-sponsored the CWRIC establishment yet opposed its remedy. — connects to: A redress campaign began within the Japanese American community decades before federal action. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 189; A Japanese-American senator opposed redress claiming Japanese Americans were already too prosperous. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 229; Reagan opposed redress over cost and prior-payment adequacy arguments — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 219
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: A redress campaign began within the Japanese American community decades before federal action. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 189; A Japanese-American senator opposed redress claiming Japanese Americans were already too prosperous. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 229; Reagan opposed redress over cost and prior-payment adequacy arguments — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 219