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...called who "that little Jap...
...Tanaka's motorcade neared the Erawan Hotel in the center of the city, it was halted by a crowd of 2,000 students. Police clearly showed that they wanted to avoid a confrontation, and so the demonstrators surged toward the approaching cars, screaming " Jap, go home!" and waving placards reading JAPANESE ECONOMIC ANIMAL...
...Regarding John Wilson's referring to Senator Inouye as "that little Jap": as a lifelong Republican I have lived through and survived the Watergate scandal, the Cambodian lies, the soaring cost of living, and the paying of improvements for the Western White House through my taxes. But if Mr. Wilson and his racist attitude are typical of the kind of men and thinking surrounding Mr. Nixon and his aides, then I here and now repudiate the Republican Par ty and encourage other Asian Americans to do the same...
...returned home. "It gets to be a little embarrassing," says he. Of the 2,000 letters he receives each day, 85% support the hearings in general and his performance in particular. Attorney John J. Wilson could not have done him a bigger favor than to call him a "little Jap." Since one-third of Hawaii's population is of Japanese origin, the state was indignant. There was even a boomlet for Inouye for President. A reader wrote the Honolulu Advertiser: "Inouye certainly has everything a President should have except a right...
...personal emotions. But Inouye apparently enraged him by muttering "What a liar" into a not-yet-dead microphone after some testimony by Ehrlichman. Inouye annoyed the crusty old lawyer still further by asking about Haldeman's involvement in California campaign irregularities in 1962. Then came Wilson's "Jap" remark, which may well have undone whatever his assertive advocacy had achieved. Two days later, he sent a letter of apology to Inouye, but in the court of public opinion, that was too little too late...