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Dec 7, 2015 · One day before the 74 th anniversary of President Roosevelt’s historic address to Congress in response to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor it is important to examine the true meaning of the speech, and how it came to be.
Roosevelt's speech was worded to reinforce his portrayal of the United States as a victim of unprovoked Japanese aggression and appealed to patriotism rather than to idealism. Roosevelt's choice to speak promptly helped to make the speech rhetorically powerful.
Dec 7, 2016 · P resident Franklin Roosevelt called the unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbor a “date which will live in infamy,” in a famous address to the nation delivered after Japan’s deadly strike against...
Dec 6, 2016 · The first typed draft of FDR’s speech spoke of a “date which will live in world history.” Roosevelt later changed it to the more famous “date which will live in infamy.”
- American Experience
Mar 14, 2019 · The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii shocked almost everyone in the United States military and left Pearl Harbor vulnerable and unprepared. In his speech, Roosevelt declared that December 7, 1941, the day that the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, would remain "a date which will live in infamy." The word "infamy" derives from the root word ...
- Jennifer Rosenberg
Jul 29, 2019 · His address, known as the “Day of Infamy" speech, was brilliant and passionate, and would go down as one of the most important speeches ever made by an American president. The speech was so effective that Roosevelt was able to secure a near-unanimous vote to go to war with Japan.
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The day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered this Address to a Joint Session of Congress. The address was broadcast live on radio to the American people.
