Roosevelt Reacts to the Pearl Harbor Attack: “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy”
President Roosevelt requested that Congress declare war against Japan.
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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.
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