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Congressman Hoyer press comment on George Washington, Frederick Douglass for DC

Maryland Congressman Steny Hoyer says at a press conference on statehood for the District of Columbia a day before an admission bill was set to pass the House that George Washington was from Virginia, Frederick Douglass a slave born on the Eastern shore of Maryland but escaped to become one of the great intellects of America, one of the great citizens critically important in advising and urging President a family can assign Emancipation Proclamation was appropriate and in the capital of America in honor of one white and one black man each committed to the union.
Maryland Congressman Steny Hoyer says at a press conference on statehood for the District of Columbia a day before an admission bill was set to pass the House that George Washington was from Virginia, Frederick Douglass a slave born on the Eastern shore of Maryland but escaped to become one of the great intellects of America, one of the great citizens critically important in advising and urging President a family can assign Emancipation Proclamation was appropriate and in the capital of America in honor of one white and one black man each committed to the union.
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June 25, 2020
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