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‘An opportunity to renew that commitment': DC marks 50 years since Home Rule Act
Fifty years ago, the people of D.C. got a Christmas present from the president of the United States that they’d been asking for for a century. News4’s Derrick Ward spoke to the chairman of the D.C. Council, who sees the D.C. Home Rule Act as a present that’s still being unwrapped.