The text of President Roosevelt's war message to Congress said: "To the Congress of the United States: Advertisement "Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy -- the United ...

“Each nation must decide for itself.” He acknowledges suffering ahead. FDR’s famous ‘infamy’ speech is all about optimism. “With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding ...

7, 1941 attack of Pearl Harbor by Japanese forces culminated with a moving speech ... President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's characterization of the deadly invasion as a "day of infamy," resulting ...

The day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave the "Day of Infamy" speech before Congress, winning a declaration of war that marked the U.S. entrance into World War II.

The next day, in a speech memorializing the incident as “a date which will live in infamy,” U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress for a formal declaration of war. Japan’s ...

In his famous speech, FDR declared Dec. 7 “a day which will live in infamy.” Congress approved the declaration of war with only one vote against it. Wreckage, identified by the U.S. Navy as a ...