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"Day in Infamy" - FDR Changes to First Draft of Speech

President Roosevelt's first choice of words, in his famous December 8th speech, was not "day in infamy."  This facsimile, of his marked-up draft, reveals the original sentence began:  "Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in world history ...

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Image of FDR's manuscript, U.S. National Archives.