CHAPTER 5 - FDR ACTS
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A debate still rages whether FDR had advance warning about the attack on Pearl Harbor. What we do know is the outrage he publicly expressed. One of the most-quoted FDR lines comes from his famous "Day in Infamy" speech.
Follow this link to the National Archives to see FDR's draft speech. "A date which will live in world history," was FDR's first choice of words. He changed the text to the more memorable "infamy" as an afterthought. A less memorable choice of words appeared a few months later in FDR's Executive Order 9066. It led to one of the most regrettable actions the United States government has ever taken against its own citizens. Pursuant to this February 19, 1942 order, Japanese-Americans were "excluded" from their homes and businesses and relocated to internment camps. |
