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On the recordSeptember 8, 1960
use the full power of the executive branch of the Government to assure the early enactment of District home-rule legislation.
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Joseph Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Statement by Senator John F. Kennedy in a Letter to W. John Kenney, Chairman of the Democratic Central Committee of the...

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