Franklin D. Roosevelt: Pearl Harbor
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: Pearl Harbor
President Franklin D. Roosevelt requests that Congress declare war against Japan on December 8, 1941, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the previous day, “a date which will live in infamy.”
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PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT: Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the empire of Japan.