Lyndon Johnson: “The people of the District of Columbia, I think deserve and I think must and will have home rule.”

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Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, do proclaim that the following described land reserved by the Act of September 1, 1959, be designated as the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Park area of…

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