Yes, he did. His next-to-last paragraph was "With confidence in our armed forces-with the unbounding determination of our people-we will gain the inevitable triumph-so help us God."
It was an era when most Americans were still unashamedly religious and expected the same of their leaders.
The US Constitution guarantees freedom OF religion, not freedom FROM religion, as the leaders of the hyper-sensitive, uber-politically correct nation America has become would have you believe, and have tortured the language of the Constitution into proclaiming.
Yes, he did! I was only 9 years old but I remember hearing it on the RADIO. "so help us God".
The entire speech, from start to finish, is about 8 and a half minutes long, very short.
It was a speech by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a joint session of congress the day after Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese. The attack took place on December 6, 1941 and Roosevelt said it was a "day of infamy". He also declared war on Imperial Japan in that speech.
I'll leave two Related Links - one with the entire speech, and another with the effects after the speech.
The date that Roosevelt gave the speech was December 18, 1941. The time he gave his speech I do not know. Sorry. : )You can listen to his speech on this web site www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html.
Both recognize the threat of the enemy but emphasize America's power to defeat it.
State of the Union Address
It was a day that would live on in infamy.
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. FDR's nothing to fear speech, FDR's day of infamy speech. JFK"s ask not speech. There are a lot of them.
The entire speech, from start to finish, is about 8 and a half minutes long, very short.
It was a speech by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a joint session of congress the day after Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese. The attack took place on December 6, 1941 and Roosevelt said it was a "day of infamy". He also declared war on Imperial Japan in that speech.
I'll leave two Related Links - one with the entire speech, and another with the effects after the speech.
The date that Roosevelt gave the speech was December 18, 1941. The time he gave his speech I do not know. Sorry. : )You can listen to his speech on this web site www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html.
Both recognize the threat of the enemy but emphasize America's power to defeat it.
Both recognize the threat of the enemy but emphasize America's power to defeat it.
FDR gave his Infamy speech before a joint session of Congress. The House chamber of the Capitol, which is in the south wing, has the appointments to accommodate such things. The State of the Union address by the President is traditionally given there.
President Franklin Roosevelt said this in his speech to the United States Congress on December 8, 1941, the day after the unprovoked Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. He actually used the word date as opposed to day.
The assassin lived a life of infamy, for all the people he killed. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, FDR called December 7, 1941 a day that would live in the annals of infamy.