Former Mayor Harold Washington, Chicago's first black mayor, once noted that "It's a wonderful world but you/ve got to work, you've got to think, and you've got to study." And, we would add, you've got to know your history.
The recent thinly veiled proposal by House Democrats to create two more Democratic Senate seats by making the District of Columbia our fifty-first state was addressed in 1964 by no less than then Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, a Democrat, ho wrote: "It was indispensably necessary to the independence and the very existence of the (new) Federal Government to have a seat of government which was not subject to the jurisdiction or control of any State."
