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Franklin D. Roosevelt: “Pearl Harbor” Speech

( 1941 ) Commentary by Carl Rollyson, Baruch College, The City University of New York

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dastardly treacherous and devious
infamy the state of having a disgraced reputation, often due to criminal behavior that deserves the heaviest condemnation

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the declaration of war against Japan, December 8, 1941 (Library of Congress)

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