ourpresidents: Day of Infamy This photo shows Roosevelt delivering his “Day of Infamy” speech to  Congress.  To the right, in uniform, is Roosevelt’s son James, who escorted his father to the Capitol.  Seated in the back are V.P. Henry Wallace and Speaker Sam Rayburn.  December 8, 1941. The National Archives holds typed copies of the final drafts of this seminal speech, with a few of FDR’s handwritten corrections.  However, archivists at the FDR Library believe the original reading copy, like reading copies of other FDR speeches, was in a completely different form, very distinctive in size and format and different from the legislative copies in House and Senate files.  Apparently, neither FDR nor his son, James, who accompanied him, brought it back to the White House and its whereabouts, 70 years later, remains a mystery. -from Prologue: Pieces of History
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Day of Infamy

This photo shows Roosevelt delivering his “Day of Infamy” speech to  Congress.  To the right, in uniform, is Roosevelt’s son James, who escorted his father to the Capitol.  Seated in the back are V.P. Henry Wallace and Speaker Sam Rayburn.  December 8, 1941.

The National Archives holds typed copies of the final drafts of this seminal speech, with a few of FDR’s handwritten corrections.  However, archivists at the FDR Library believe the original reading copy, like reading copies of other FDR speeches, was in a completely different form, very distinctive in size and format and different from the legislative copies in House and Senate files. 

Apparently, neither FDR nor his son, James, who accompanied him, brought it back to the White House and its whereabouts, 70 years later, remains a mystery.

-from Prologue: Pieces of History

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Source: fdrlibrary.marist.edu

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