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 Radio Address Delivered by President Roosevelt From Washington, September 3, 1939
 
Tonight my single duty is to speak to the whole of America.
Until 4:30 this morning I had hoped against hope that some miracle would prevent a devastating war in Europe and bring to an end the invasion of Poland by Germany.
For 4 long years a [...]

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This dinner of the White House Correspondents’ Association is unique. It is the first one at which I have made a speech in all these eight years. It differs from the press conferences that you and I hold twice a week, for you cannot ask me any questions tonight; and everything that I have to [...]

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Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Statement on North African Policy - November 17, 1942
I have accepted General Eisenhower’s political arrangements made for the time being in Northern and Western Africa.
I thoroughly understand and approve the feeling in the United States and Great Britain and among all the other United Nations that in view of the history of [...]

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Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives:
Yesterday, December 7th, 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.
The United States was at peace with that nation [...]

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http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrpearlharbor.htm - Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation; includes text and audio of the speech.
“Yesterday, December 7th, 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.”
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrthefourfreedoms.htm - Franklin Delano Roosevelt [...]

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