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...first attempt to synthesize the conflicting strategies came in Washington, D.C., last week. The Rev. Walter Fauntroy. Washington's nonvoting delegate to Congress, announced that he would run as a favorite son in the District of Columbia primary-with an unstated agreement that the bulk of Washington's 15 delegate votes would go to Chisholm...
Other speakers who will address the conference later this weekend include Daniel Ellsberg '52, former Rep. Allard K. Lowenstein (D-N.Y.). Georgia state representative Julian Bond. Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.). Rep. Donald Riegle (R-Mich.) and Rep. Walter Fauntroy...
...Walter E. Fauntroy, LL.D., first delegate to be elected to Congress from the District of Columbia...
...former aide to the late Martin Luther King, Fauntroy has style and personal magnetism. His lively manner and soaring rhetoric reflect careful study of his mentor. Fauntroy campaigned (with the help of Mrs. Coretta King) on the theme "He's going to get us all together." His goals: home rule for Washington and full representation and voting privileges for the capital in Congress...
Guaranteed Income. Fauntroy's initial act was to join the twelve other black Congressmen-all Democrats-in their long-sought confrontation with President Nixon. The black caucus, which meets each week, first tried to gain an interview with the President a year ago, and was put off because of "scheduling difficulties." These difficulties persisted-rather embarrassingly -for nearly a year until the Congressmen boycotted the President's State of the Union message last January. Nixon last week finally granted a hearing...