FDR’s Pearl Harbor Address

It Was Said

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🗓️ 16 November 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Franklin D. Roosevelt asks Congress for a declaration of war against Japan following the attack on Pearl Harbor – a date, he says, which will live in infamy. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The word had come when the president was at lunch.
0:17.6	It was Sunday, December 7, 1941.
0:21.2	Sundays tended to be quiet in the Roosevelt White House.
0:24.6	The president, a devout Episcopian, did not regularly attend church when he was in Washington.
0:29.9	Noting, I can do almost anything in the goldfish bowl the president's life, but I'll be
0:35.4	hanged if I can say my prayers in it.
0:39.0	And so he was in his second floor oval study, eating and chatting with his advisor Harry
0:44.0	Hopkins in a room decorated with naval prints and model ships.
0:49.2	He and Hopkins were discussing things far removed from the war when the secretary of the
0:53.7	Navy rang with the news that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor at dawn Pacific time.
1:02.0	This is the BBC Home Studies.
1:04.2	Here is the news.
1:05.8	Japan's long threatened aggression in the parties began tonight with air attacks on United
1:10.8	States naval bases in the Pacific.
1:13.6	Press reports are coming in every minute the latest facts of the situation are lead.
1:18.0	When St. Churchill was at dinner at checkers, the Prime Minister's country retreat, when
1:31.1	he heard the news remarkably on the BBC, Churchill reached the White House by telephone.
1:38.4	Mr. President, what's this about Japan?
1:41.9	It's quite true, FDR replied.
1:44.4	They have attacked us at Pearl Harbor.
1:46.8	We are all in the same boat now.
1:50.0	Churchill could not hide his feelings.
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