Video: '1942 State of the Union Address'

(Tuesday, January 6, 1942, 12:30 p.m. EST, during World War II) — A breathtaking mammoth arms production, American forces fighting on many fronts and an eventual hard-hitting attack upon the enemy’s own territory were woven into a unified war plan presented today by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the annual State of the Union Address before a joint session of Congress.

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All this, the president said, must lead inevitably to “total victory” — the “militarists of Berlin and Tokyo started this war” but “the massed, angered forces of common humanity will finish it.”

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