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day of infamy. “Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in world history, the United States was simultaneously and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.” So began the first draft of Franklin Delano Roose- velt’s historic Pearl Harbor speech, which he wrote himself. In the second draft FDR substituted the infinitely better “infamy” for “world history” and “suddenly” for “simultaneously,” mak- ing a sentence that will live in world history. |