Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared December 7 a date that will live in an infamy. Here was his speech:
"Members of the Senate, and the House of Representatives. Yesterday, December 7th, 1941, a date which will live in an infamy, the United States of America... was suddenly, and deliberately attacked... by a naval air force of theirs: Imperial Japan. I have asked Congress to declare war on Japan and her allies."
"Today is a day that will live in Infamy."
We have one thing to fear and that is fear itself.
The day that will live in infamy.
Devastating with sustainable damage
This phrase was used by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a radio broadcast in December 1940 in which he pledged to supply Britain with Military equipment to assist their fight against Nazi Germany, while the US stayed out of the fighting - signifying that the US and, specifically Detroit, Michigan would be The Arsenal of Democracy. This was, of course, before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
yes they did, read a Japanese book
Its a phrase is all I (Your MOM) can tell you!
The first recorded use of the phrase was in a letter Roosevelt wrote to Henry Sprague in 1900. Roosevelt claimed the phrase to be of West African origin, but there is no corroborative evidence of that. It is possible that he coined the phrase and made up the derivation.
This phrase appears in Roosevelt's day of infamy speech, made soon after the Pearl Harbor attack by the Japanese. The treachery referred to was Japan's. Even while planes were on their way to bomb the harbor, they were negotiating with the US and in no way indicated they were ready to attack the US.
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The day that will live in infamy.
Devastating with sustainable damage
The Only Thing We Have To Fear, Is Fear Itself!
Any of the phases said by the President of the United States. It's the same president.
It uplifted the morale of the country throughout his administration;
President Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt is said to have used it first, in 1906. He got it from a mention in the book "Pilgrim's Progress" by John Bunyan, referring to a "man with a muck-rake." Roosevelt adapted the phrase to refer to how investigative journalists dig around in the muck to get to the truth.
President Abraham Lincoln spoke this phrase as part of his famous Gettysburg Address.
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Edmund Morris, in his Biography "Colonel Roosevelt", quotes a letter Teddy Roosevelt wrote to his son about not "pussy-footing" around on the issue of running for president for a third term.