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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.
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.
President Roosevelt made the Infamy Speech (with its famous opening line "Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy,") to a Joint session of Congress. Within one hour the United States declared war on Japan. Lifelong pacifist Jeannette Rankin was the only member of Congress to vote against declaring war.
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 ...
Yamamoto's meaning was that military victory, in a protracted war against an opponent with as much of a population and industrial advantage as the United States possessed, was completely impossible, a rebuff to the Kantai Kessen Decisive Battle Doctrine of those who thought that winning a single major battle against the United States Navy would ...
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.
FDR's "Day of Infamy" speech. JFK's inaugural address. Barack Obama's 2004 convention speech. And, yes, Donald Trump's 2016 Cinco de Mayo tweet. Happy #CincoDeMayo! The best taco bowls are made in ...
Traditionally, American presidents give a Memorial Day speech at Arlington National Cemetery at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. New York was the first state to recognize Memorial Day as an ...