DAY OF INFAMY SPEECH

After the attacks on Pearl Harbor and other American possessions, President Franklin D Roosevelt gave a speech to the nation in which he referred to 7 December as a “date which will live in infamy”. Roosevelt went on to condemn the surprise attack and affirmed the United States’ commitment to self-defence. “With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph – so help us God,” he exclaimed.