FDR Fireside Chat On Battle Of The Bulge (194

Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. Ladies and gentlemen, today in the pursuit of my constitutional duty, I sent to the Congress a message on the State of the Union. And this evening I am taking the opportunity to repeat to you some parts of that message.

This war must be waged, it is being waged, for the greatest and most persistent intensity. Everything we are, everything we have is at stake. Everything we are and have will be given. We have no question of the ultimate victory.

We have no question of the cost. Our losses will be heavy. But we and our allies will go on fighting together to ultimate total victory. We have seen a year marked on the whole by substantial progress toward victory, even though the year ended with a setback for our arms.

When the Germans launched a ferocious convert tech into looks on Boa and Belgium, with the obvious objectives of cutting our line in the center, our men have fought with indescribable and unforgettable gallantry under most difficult conditions. The high tide of this German attack was reached two days after Christmas. Since then we have reassumed the offensive,

we have rescued the isolated garrison at Bastogne and forced the German withdrawal along most of the line of the salient. The speed with which we have recovered from this savage attack was possible primarily because we have one Supreme Commander in complete control of all the Allied armies in France.

General Eisenhower has faced this period of trial with admirable calm and resolution and is steadily increasing success. He has my complete confidence for the desperate attempts may well be made and are being made to break our lines to slow our progress.