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(You can see selections of FDR’s address before Congress in this clip from YouTube.) Also known as the “Pearl Harbor Speech,” its words have lived on through the decades since they were ...

December 7, 1941, was the day of infamy – the date when the Japanese hit Pearl Harbor with ... You can see that in FDR’s notations on the first draft of the speech, posted online by the ...

Remembering Pearl Harbor, 75 years later (“Sunday ... did all of the editing in pencil to his own speech.” And here it is -- edited by Roosevelt in his own hand. Two-and-a-half pages in ...

The powerful and memorable words from Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s message to Congress ... Watch the video to see how survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor are honoring their comrades.

He had a nation to rally. Roosevelt's two speechwriters were in New York at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack and did not help him with the most important speech of his presidency. Others ...

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, it didn’t take long for the country to shift its focus to the war effort.

I personally saw Pearl Harbor in flames, and as I battled to put out the fire, I could not help but realize that until we fight climate change, such disasters will recur. Indeed, one hour after ...

Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York, made FDR's Master Speech File available ... 74th anniversary of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. The attack came while FDR was ...

Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in order to destroy the pacific ... a declaration of war on the Empire of Japan. In his famous speech, FDR declared Dec. 7 “a day which will live in infamy.” ...