TODAY IN HISTORY: "A date which will live in infamy"

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 United States was at peace with that nation and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its government and its emperor, looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific.
. . . The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian Islands has caused severe damage to American naval and military forces. I...