President Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses a joint session of Congress following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Roosevelt calls the attack "a day which will live in infamy" and asks Congress for a declaration of war against the Empire of Japan, which is passed with a near unanimous vote.
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