“Yesterday, December 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”
"The 11th word of that sentence became the defining element of his war declaration. It was dubbed his “Day of Infamy” speech, and at times distilled even further to just his “Infamy” speech.
But in Roosevelt’s first draft, “infamy” didn’t exist.
The path to the “infamy” version began with a meeting between Roosevelt and his closest confidants, Paul M. Sparrow, director of the FDR Presidential Library and Museum, in Hyde Park, N.Y., wrote in an essay for the Poughkeepsie Journal. It began just after 3 p.m. First lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who had held a luncheon that day, said her husband was “deadly calm,” Sparrow wrote."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/12/07/75-years-later-remembering-fdrs-day-of-infamy-a-phrase-that-almost-wasnt/?hpid=hp_hp-morning-mix_mm-fdr%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.a3afdde2ef38
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