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Quotation from Pearl Harbor Address ("A Date Which Will Live in Infamy") by Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”
Pearl Harbor Address ("A Date Which Will Live in Infamy"), Paragraph 1 (National Archives text)
The opening sentence, with the word infamy that Roosevelt wrote into the draft by hand.
Citation: "Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan." — Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pearl Harbor Address ("A Date Which Will Live in Infamy"), Paragraph 1 (National Archives text). (id pearl-harbor-address-q1)
Portrait: Fdr delivers speech, United States Government., Public domain.
