President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his “Day of Infamy” speech to Congress on December 8, 1941. Behind him are Vice President Henry Wallace (left) and Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn. To the ...

Roosevelt addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress to declare war on Japan. The Infamy Speech was a speech delivered by President Roosevelt on December 8, 1941, one day after the Empire of ...

In the original text of his unforgettable speech, FDR changed “world history” to “infamy” and in the House of Adams, that’s the critical, unforgettable word. Today’s HoA, manned by a ...

Warren Upton, the oldest living survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack, died at the age of 105 on Wednesday. Why It Matters. On ...

D.C. Roosevelt's six-minute speech was also played across the nation over radios. Here's what the president said. "Mr. Vice President, and Mr. Speaker, and Members of the Senate and House of ...

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 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 ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s address to a joint session of Congress verbatim. “Yesterday, December 7, 1941 – a date which will live in infamy – the United States was suddenly and deliberately ...

TODAY: “December 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States ... After a brief and forceful speech, Roosevelt asked Congress to approve a resolution recognizing the ...