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 ...

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress to declare war on Japan. The Infamy Speech was a speech delivered by President Roosevelt on December 8, 1941 ...

It was a speech President Franklin D. Roosevelt didn't expect to ... That one-word edit by Roosevelt—from history to infamy—may be one of the most famous of all time, comparable only to ...

The day after the attack, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed a joint session ... 7, 1941 – a date which will live in infamy – the United States of America was suddenly and ...

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On December 8, 1941, the day after Pearl Harbor was attacked, President Franklin D ... Roosevelt swapped "world history" for "infamy," while editing the first draft of the speech by hand.

The day after the attack, President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed Congress, asking for a declaration of war on the Empire of Japan. It is one of the most iconic speeches in American history ...