03/03/1963
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"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."
"The Federal budget has a double importance: It is an agenda of our purposes and priorities in the form of a plan for the conduct and financing of the public business."