Five Things You Should Know About FDR's Pearl Harbor Speech

U.S. Newswire, December, 2007

To: POLITICAL EDITORS

Contact: Beth Dempsey for Schlager Group, 1-248-349-7810, beth@bethdempsey.com

DALLAS, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- How would December 7 - Pearl Harbor Day - be remembered without President Franklin D. Roosevelt's powerful address to Congress on December 8, 1941? Historians see that speech as a turning point in American history, uniting the country in a patriotic surge of support for the "good war." In fact, FDR's address was chosen to be among the 134 works included in Milestone Documents in American History (Schlager Group, 2008), placing it among the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and Bill of Rights in historic importance.

"FDR's address is a masterwork of leadership communication in crisis," says Neil Schlager, founder and...

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