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  2. Day of Infamy speech - Wikipedia

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    Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940. Franklin D. Roosevelt was born in 1882 in Dutchess County, New York. Initially working at a law firm, he later became a member of the New York state senate. He served as the assistant secretary of the Navy under President Woodrow Wilson and was elected the 44th governor of New York.

  3. List of State of the Union addresses - Wikipedia

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    George W. Bush during his 2005 State of the Union address.. This is a list of State of the Union addresses.The State of the Union is the constitutionally mandated annual report by the president of the United States, the head of the U.S. federal executive departments, to the United States Congress, the U.S. federal legislative body.

  4. 1936 State of the Union Address - Wikipedia

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    House Speaker Jo Byrns remarked that the speech "very clearly sets forth the major issues of the coming campaign." [1] In the closing paragraph of his address, Roosevelt quoted an individual whom he referred to as a "wise philosopher." That individual was Josiah Royce in his 1914 work "A Word for the Times," which Roosevelt quoted by saying

  5. 1936 Madison Square Garden speech - Wikipedia

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    The 1936 Madison Square Garden speech was a speech given by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on October 31, 1936, three days before that year's presidential election.In the speech, Roosevelt pledged to continue the New Deal and criticized those who, in his view, were putting personal gain and politics over national economic recovery from the Great Depression.

  6. Category:Speeches by Franklin D. Roosevelt - Wikipedia

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    0–9. 1934 State of the Union Address; 1935 State of the Union Address; 1936 Madison Square Garden speech; 1936 State of the Union Address; 1937 State of the Union Address

  7. 1942 State of the Union Address - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. 1935 State of the Union Address - Wikipedia

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    It was in the 1935 speech were Roosevelt used the phrase "State of the Union", which began the common use of the term to describe the annual address. [2] A major focus was the creation of a social safety net, with Roosevelt emphasizing the need for unemployment insurance and old-age pensions, laying the foundation for the Social Security Act of ...

  9. List of United States political catchphrases - Wikipedia

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    "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.", from Franklin D. Roosevelt's first inaugural address. [5] "Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy." said by President Franklin D. Roosevelt after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. [6] "I shall return." U.S. General Douglas MacArthur after leaving the Philippines. [7]