Mine has been a concern for the people, a concern to maintain stability, a concern to get people working together racially, ethnically, rich and poor - all segments of the city.

from 1967 to 1979 serving as the first and only Mayor-Commissioner from 1967 to 1974 and as the first home-rule mayor of the District of Columbia from 1974 to 1979. Soon afterward he was faced with the riots in the District that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. "
In the 1978 Democratic mayoral primary between Washington Tucker and Barry Washington finiWalter Washingtond third.

from 1967 to 1979 serving as the first and only Mayor-Commissioner from 1967 to 1974 and as the first home-rule mayor of the District of Columbia from 1974 to 1979. He was the last presidentially-appointed mayor of Washington.