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The speech's infamy line is often misquoted as "a day that will live in infamy". However, Roosevelt emphasized the date—December 7, 1941—rather than the day of the attack, a Sunday, which he mentioned only in the last line of the speech.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his "Day of Infamy" speech to Congress on December 8, 1941. Behind him are Vice President Henry Wallace (left) and Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn. To the right, in uniform in front of Rayburn, is Roosevelt's son James, who escorted his father to the Capitol.
The day after the attack, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his famous Day of Infamy speech to a Joint Session of Congress, calling for a formal declaration of war on the Empire of Japan. Congress obliged his request less than an hour later.
On the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, read through the events of the day as they occurred 75 years ago. Pearl Harbor: A 75th anniversary timeline of the 'date which will live in infamy ...
President Roosevelt formally requested the declaration in his Day of Infamy Speech, addressed to a joint session of Congress and the nation at 12:30 p.m. on December 8. [11] Roosevelt's speech described the attack on Pearl Harbor as a deliberately planned attack by Japan on the United States.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Jan. 6, 2021 was “a day that will live in infamy.” “Hopefully today the peaceful transfer of power should serve as an example of how we as a ...
The United States on Mondayclosed in on the staggering milestone of 500,000 COVID-19 deathsjust over a year to the day since the coronavirus pandemicclaimed its first known U.S. victims in Santa ...
President Roosevelt made the Infamy Speech (with its famous opening line "Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy,") to a Joint session of Congress. Within one hour the United States declared war on Japan. Lifelong pacifist Jeannette Rankin was the only member of Congress to vote against declaring war.