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| | The Black Vault - FDR's "Day of Infamy" Speech: Crafting a Call to Arms [7 Pages] |
 | | Two of Roosevelt's speechwriters, Samuel I. Rosenman and Robert Sherwood, were in New York City on December 7 and did not participate in drafting the speech; the President handled this one mostly by himself. |
 | | Roosevelt's speech amounted to a call to arms for a national audience that would suddenly need to shift to a war footing that meant wage and price controls; shortages of food, fuel, and other strategic materials; and, of course, the induction into the armed forces of their sons, husbands, fathers, and sweethearts. |
 | | A search of his coat, and that of his son James, who had escorted his father, was made. |
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