LAD #34: FDR's Declaration of War

With a rousing tone of strident oratory, President Roosevelt came to Congress to present to them his proposal of going to war with the Japanese Empire. He goes one to describe the premeditated and evilly conceived attack on American grounds in Hawaii. This is just as the "Japanese government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace". He then repetitiously and deliberately states the greater amount of U.S. Pacific holdings that were attacked by the Japanese Empire. Then he goes on in vivid detail to describe the triumph and the power the U.S. will show to achieve "absolute victory" over its overzealous adversary. He gave a rousing pre-game speech if you will to stir up massive nationalist sentiment and "awake the sleeping giant" as many historians have called it. He ends with his simple yet almost ornamental asking of Congress for a declaration of war on the Japanese Empire.