WH Press Secretary Says WWII Vets Should Set Aside Their ‘Personal Bitterness’ Over Pearl Harbor Attacks Emmanuel December 7, 2016 Politics 16 Get over it! Is basically what White House Press Secretary, Josh Earnest said Monday at the daily White House press briefing. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced that he would be the first Japanese leader to visit the Hawaiian naval station since it was bombed by Japan on Dec. 7, 1941.