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Which U.S. president was in office during the attack on Pearl Harbor?
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Pearl Harbor attack
A U.S. battleship sinking during the Pearl Harbor attack.
The U.S. president in office during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, was Franklin D. Roosevelt.12