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An excerpt from the speech where Roosevelt says "... a date which will live in infamy". The "Day of Infamy" speech , sometimes referred to as the Infamy speech , was a speech delivered by Franklin D. Roosevelt , the 32nd president of the United States , to a joint session of Congress on December 8, 1941.
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.
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.
See the full text transcript of Donald Trump's inaugural address after being sworn in as the 47th president of the United States.
Dec. 8—Thomas Leatherman, superintendent of the Pearl Harbor National Memorial, told attendees that "as each year passes we say goodbye to more and more of our friends who served here on Dec. 7 ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Transcript of President Joe Biden’s address to the nation on July 24, 2024: My fellow Americans, I’m speaking to you tonight from behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office.
1941: A Date Which Will Live in Infamy, post-Pearl Harbor speech to the U.S. Congress in which Franklin Delano Roosevelt called for a declaration of war against Japan. 1941: Declaration of war against United States by the German Führer, German Chancellor, and Führer of the Nazi Party, Adolf Hitler , in which he announced Germany has declared ...
President Barack Obama said farewell to the American people a little more than a week before Donald Trump took the Oval Office.