Accordingly, even though Roosevelt was well aware of the impending Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he let it happen, and was relieved and pleased when it did take place. The evidence to support ...

More than 80 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor ... President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared war against Japan the next day during a speech to Congress. He famously referred to December ...

beginning America's involvement in World War II the following day after two years as a neutral party. FDR famously said that Pearl Harbor was "a date which will live in infamy" in his speech, and ...