FDR's 'Infamy' speech

The Washington Post 2016-12-07

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The day after the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered a formal address to the joint Congressional session on Dec. 8. Here's an excerpt of the now-famous speech.
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