Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

I urge early enactment of the necessary legislative measures to assure a continuing equitable determination of fiscal relations between the two governments.

Context

Letter to Congress Transmitting a Report on Fiscal Relations between the United States and the District of Columbia.

01/07/1937

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