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Why did President Franklin D.Roosvelt call it “a date which will live in infamy”?

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The name derives from the first line of the speech: Roosevelt describing the previous day as "a date which will live in infamy". ... Within an hour of the speech, Congress passed a formal declaration of war against Japan and officially brought the U.S. into World War II.
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