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Doc of the Day: Franklin D. Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor Speech

On December 8, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed both houses of Congress regarding the previous day’s attack by the Japanese air force on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. The attack devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet in less than two hours. In his address to Congress, Roosevelt [...]

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