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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

I'm speaking to you tonight at a very serious moment in our history.

The cabinet is convening and the leaders in Congress are meeting with the President.

The State Department and Army and Navy officials have been with the President all afternoon.

In fact, the Japanese Ambassador was talking to the President at the very time that Japan's airships were bombing our citizens in Hawaii and the Philippines

and sinking one of our transports loaded with lumber on its way to a way.

On December 8, 1941, the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin

Delano Roosevelt delivered his famous Day of Infamy Speech.

The United States had entered World War II. That evening his wife would call on all Americans to focus on the war effort and to support the nation's leaders in the difficult days ahead. She had also entered World War II.

I'm Jason Epperson and on today's episode of America's National Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt, the only first lady to have a

National Park Service unit in her honor and her critical role in World War II. Shortly after her radio dress, Eleanor was off to the

west coast to help organize offices of civilian defense.

Meanwhile, she wrote newspaper columns, entitled My Day,

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