the day of infamy speech was given at whitehall.
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the infamy speech was a speech delivered by united states president franklin d. roosevelt to a joint session of the us congress on december 8, 1941, one day after the empire of japan's attack on the us naval base at pearl harbor, hawaii, and the japanese declaration of war on the united states and the british empire. the name derives from the first line of the speech: roosevelt describing the previous day as "a date which will live in infamy". the speech is also commonly referred to as the "pearl harbor speech".
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sixty years later, the continuing resonance of the infamy speech was demonstrated following the september 11 attacks, which many commentators also compared with pearl harbor in terms of its lasting impression on many worldwide. in the days following the attacks, author richard jackson notes in his book "writing the war on terrorism: language, politics and counter-terrorism" that "there [was] a deliberate and sustained effort" on the part of the george w. bush administration to "discursively link september 11, 2001 to the attack on pearl harbor itself", both by directly invoking roosevelt's infamy speech and by re-using the themes employed by roosevelt in his speech. in bush's speech to the nation on september 11, 2001, he contrasted the "evil, despicable acts of terror" with the "brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity" that america represented in his view. university of washington professor and author sandra silberstein draws direct parallels between the language used by roosevelt and bush, highlighting a number of similarities between the infamy speech and bush's presidential address of september 11. similarly, emily s. rosenberg notes rhetorical efforts to link the conflicts of 1941 and 2001 by re-utilizing second world war terminology of the sort used by roosevelt, such as using the term "axis" to refer to america's enemies (as in "axis of evil").
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