Bureau, and Executive Secretary of the Committee of 100 Ministers, Fowler worked to support America's public schools, improve the social services system, lobbied to make jobs available to African Americans who could not be hired at federal agencies in D.C., such as the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and advocated for the integration of the armed forces and public transportation in D.C. D.C. Home Rule In early 1974, a proposed D.C. Home Rule Act would have given the District an elected mayor and a 13-member city council. Several D.C. community leaders and home rule proponents denounced the legislation as a token effort, but Fowler and the Committee of 100 Ministers supported the act, taking the position that imperfect change was better than no change. Feeling that the citizens of the District needed to be educated regarding the Home Rule bill, and since the Committee of 100 represented over 25,000 people, Fowler organized and conducted educational seminars aimed at turning out high numbers of “yes” votes. The act passed, and on January 2, 1975, the District's first elected officials took the oath of office. Walter E. Washington (a good friend of Fowler's) served one four-year term as elected mayor, and was succeeded by Marion Barry in 1979. Presidential Adviser Over the course of his political life, Fowler advised seven U.S. presidents (Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Jimmy Carter), as well as mayors, and other political figures locally and nationally. He believed that morality could not be legislated, but that society should discipline itself. As a result he opposed the D.C. City Council's attempts to legalize same-sex marriage, marijuana, and gambling. He felt the latter proposals would increase crime, "deteriorate character", and "dull the moral sense". Personal life While serving his apprenticeship at Shiloh Baptist Church, Fowler found himself attracted to one of the parishioners, Henrietta Roberta Hatter (June 16, 1913 - December 25, 2004). Hatter was a native Washingtonian with roots in Stafford County, Virginia. She attended the public schools of the District of Columbia, graduating from Armstrong High School in 1931. After high school, Hatter immediately began matriculation at the Miner Teachers College and earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Education in 1935. In the fall of 1937, she enrolled at Howard University and completed her work towards a Master of Arts degree in History in