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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. The previous day, the Empire of Japan ...
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.
1st: January 3, 1941 – January 2, 1942. 2nd: January 5, 1942 – December 16, 1942. The 77th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C., from January 3, 1941, to January 3 ...
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 ...
0–9. 1934 State of the Union Address. 1936 Madison Square Garden speech. 1938 Gettysburg reunion. 1938 State of the Union Address. 1939 State of the Union Address. 1940 State of the Union Address. 1945 State of the Union Address.
Tully typed Roosevelt's first draft of the speech he delivered to the U.S. Congress following the attack on Pearl Harbor, which FDR revised to begin, "a date which will live in infamy". Grace Tully was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. Her father was a businessman and a loyalist to the Democratic Party.
The fourth inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt as president of the United States was held on Saturday, January 20, 1945. This was the 40th inauguration and marked the commencement of the fourth and final term of Franklin D. Roosevelt as president and the only term of Harry S. Truman as vice president. This is the only time a president was ...
The Attack on Pearl Harbor: An Illustrated History by Larry Kimmett and Margaret Regis is a careful recreation of the "Day of Infamy" using maps, photos, unique illustrations, and an animated CD. From the early stages of Japanese planning, through the attack on Battleship Row , to the salvage of the U.S. Pacific fleet, this book provides a ...