Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

The whole American Nation today exults at the news that the gallant men under your command have landed on Philippine soil.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by Title I of the First War Powers Act, 1941 (55 Stat. 838), and as President of the United States, ...

We promised to return; we have returned.

Until we were attacked at Pearl Harbor we had done our utmost to live as friendly self-respecting neighbors of the Japanese in the Pacific.