John Kennedy actually said...

"The additional general fund financing in fiscal year 1964, for which legislative authority will be needed, will provide the District with the funds necessary to enable it to qualify for and participat..."

"Let us make it a city of which the Nation may be proud-an example and a showplace for the rest of the world."

"I again urge that the Congress restore to District residents the basic right to local self-government."

"Because Washington is the Nation's capital, the National Government has, and must continue to have, a special responsibility and a special relationship to the District of Columbia."