
FDR’s “Day of Infamy” Speech
Crafting a Call to Arms Winter 2001, Vol. 33, No. 4 | Our Heritage in Documents Enlarge The USS Arizona seen burning after the attack by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the morning of December 7, 1941. It was 1 p.m. in Washington. (Franklin D. Roosevelt Library) View in National Archives Catalog In the early afternoon of December 7, 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt was just finishing lunch in his oval study on the second floor of the White House, preparing to work on his stamp album, when…