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On the recordJuly 24, 2017
Although as recently as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, people forget he asked Congress to declare war against Japan after Pearl Harbor.
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Gerry Connolly
Democratic · Virginia

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Connolly references FDR's request for war declaration post-Pearl Harbor.

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