MountainLaurel
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Mon Oct-27-03 09:05 AM
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Walter Washington Dies at 88 |
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Walter Washington, the first elected mayor under D.C. home rule, has died this morning at Howard University Hospital. He was 88.
A spokeswoman for the university says Washington died at about 5:15 this morning.
Washington had been hospitalized in intensive care for more than a week. The cause of his death isn't immediately available.
President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Washington as the District's mayor-commissioner in 1967. Washington became the first African-American to head a major U.S. city. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22815-2003Oct27.html
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Mon Oct-27-03 09:13 AM
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1. sad. I met him two weeks ago, |
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the night before he was hospitalised. He was a good man.
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Mon Oct-27-03 09:14 AM
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2. What were his policies and accomplishments? |
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I knew nothing about him, and I am fairly well-informed.
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