LAD #35: Executive Order #9066

On the 19th of February, 1942, FDR issued the Executive Order #9066.  In it he proclaimed that because the nation was now entangled in a war, it is the governments right to protect the nation from espionage and against any sabotage.  FDR believed that to keep the country safe, it would be necessary to gather up all of the Japanese and move them to a guarded location, while providing them with "medical aid, hospitalization, food, clothing, transportation, use of land, shelter, and other supplies, equipment, utilities facilities and service."  With the authority of being President, he gave this task to the Secretary of War, and let him use whatever means necessary to carry this out.