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U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt 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 great era of rapid economic growth had ended, Roosevelt argued. [5] In the days when growth was all-important, he agreed that it had been necessary to turn political and economic power over to entrepreneurs who were building the nation. But the era of economic growth was over he said; the entrepreneurs are now dangerous:
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.", from Franklin D. Roosevelt's first inaugural address. [5] "Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy." said by President Franklin D. Roosevelt after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. [6] "I shall return." U.S. General Douglas MacArthur after leaving the Philippines. [7]
You may have heard famous quotes like Franklin D. Roosevelt's maxim "The only thing to fear is fear itself," or Calvin Coolidge's motivational saying, “Nothing in the world can take the place of ...
The Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park is a park designed by the architect Louis Kahn for the south point of Roosevelt Island. [20] The park celebrates the famous speech, and text from the speech is inscribed on a granite wall in the final design of the park.
The 1936 Madison Square Garden speech was a speech given by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on October 31, 1936, three days before that year's presidential election.In the speech, Roosevelt pledged to continue the New Deal and criticized those who, in his view, were putting personal gain and politics over national economic recovery from the Great Depression.
The 1945 State of the Union Address was given to the 79th United States Congress on Saturday, January 6, 1945, by the 32nd President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was given in the year he died. It was given during the final year of World War II. He stated, "In considering the State of the Union, the war and the peace that is ...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York, to businessman James Roosevelt I and his second wife, Sara Ann Delano. His parents, who were sixth cousins, [ 3 ] came from wealthy, established New York families—the Roosevelts , the Aspinwalls and the Delanos , respectively—and resided at Springwood , a large ...