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I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December seventh, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire.
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The line that reveals the purpose of the speech is "I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December seventh, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire."
After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, President Roosevelt went before Congress and asked them to declare war.
He made a speech which is where the except is from and the purpose of the speech was to declare war on Japan as that line shows.
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