John Kennedy actually said...

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.

Context

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

04/03/1963

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