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On the recordApril 3, 1963
This bill is designed to reaffirm, at the seat of our National Government, our basic American belief that government should be responsible to the governed.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Letter to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House Transmitting the District of Columbia Charter Bill.

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