The President's News Conference
04/11/1961
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The additional general fund financing in fiscal year 1964, for which legislative authority will be needed, will provide the District with th...
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 r...