In the wake of Roosevelt’s speech, the Library of Congress employed people to go out to the streets of Washington, D. C., to record public reaction. The collection of interviews is called the “man on the street” and it showed a wide variety of public responses to the attack as well as to FDR’s speech. The series of interviews (with transcripts) can be seen here. A second series of the "man on the street" interviews was made by Alan Lomax, then "assistant in charge" of the Archive of American Folk Song. He sent a telegram to fieldworkers in different places in the United States on January to February 1942 to create the "Dear Mr. President" series which can be seen here.