President Franklin Delano Roosevelt referred to the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 as "a date which will live in infamy." He made the comment on the day after the attack, in an address before a joint session of Congress. Roosevelt asked the Congress to approve a declaration of war against Japan.
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
Infamy Speech was created in 1941.
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.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the one who wrote his speech to Congress on December 8, 1941. This speech will be remembered as "The Day That Will Live in Infamy" speech.
The "day that will live on in infamy" is the phrase that described the attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941