1941 Pearl Harbor Speech – Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The following speech from President Roosevelt is carved in stone at the World -War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.- Pearl Harbor – December 7, 1941, a date which live in infamy…no matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people, in their righteous might, will win through to absolute victory – President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
President Roosevelt was the only president in American history to serve four terms, from 1933, to 1945, encapsulating a period that included the Great Depression and the second World War.