s of comfort and support to a devastated people.

President Roosevelt first needed to express the severity of what had happened to the country. The statement "a date which will live in infamy" conveys a sense of fina

Roosevelt did use emotion, he did not dwell on it. It was clear that America was in true danger. The United States had been attacked on its own soil. This in itself was an attack upon each citizen. If these citizens did not support Roosevelt's actions, not only would they not be supporting their country, but also they would be disowning themselves. Roosevelt had to drive this point into the hearts of Americans. If he did not succeed with this, nothing else would have mattered.

The innocence of the United States was another issue that Roosevelt used to motivate his audience. He used words such as "deliberately", "suddenly", "dastardly", and "unprovoked" to describe the attack. He stressed that America was still at peace with the Empire of Japan at the time of the bombing. America was even in the process of maintaining future peaceful relations with Japan! He continued to stress that Japan sought to deceive the United States with false statements and untrue expressions of hope for peace. Not only had Japan attacked the United States at this time, but it had also plundered six separate countries/islands. Roosevelt needed to depict Japan as a vile enemy that needed to be defeated in order to secure the freedom and safety that Americans had enjoyed for hundreds of years.

Roosevelt had to appeal to the deepest sense of national pride within each American citizen. If America was going to be supportive of this war, then they were going to need to be motivated by more than fleeting

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