President Franklin Roosevelt had just finished lunch 79 years ago today, when he heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor. Barely 24 hours later, he was addressing a joint session of Congress, giving perhaps the most important speech of his lifetime.
His address ran just 500 words—so, twice as long as the Gettysburg Address, but still considerably shorter …
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