Eleanor Roosevelt did not. Immediately after Pearl Harbor, Mrs. Roosevelt had flown to the West Coast, where, when she learned that the bank accounts of Issei farmers had been frozen, she successfully lobbied the Treasury Department to allow them to make monthly withdrawals of one hundred dollars. During her visit, she made a point of posing with a group of Nisei and making a radio address on January 11 in which she pointed out that the Issei were long-term residents of the country and yet they had always been denied the right to apply for citizenship. Back at the White House, she tried to
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