commissioner selected to run the nbd just days after the president's phenomenal 1964 election triumph he was irate no doubt because he had not been consulted. lin was content to run the department as his predecessor had done and johnson who had clear ambition to reform-minded they're more authority over the mtv finally resorted to circumventing the new chief >> host: 67 johnson appointed walter washington, the last presidential appointment to the d.c. commission and the first to be designated mayor commissioner and later under home rule the city's first elected mayor. upon appointment as mayor commissioner washington brian patrick murphy, former chief of police in syracuse, new york as director of public safety. murphy launched an aggressive recruitment drive to hire blacks to the npd and implemented the various recommendations of johnson's client commission. in 1968 he orchestrated a leadership change selecting a technocrat with progressive leanings, jerry wilson, to replace lane as nbd police chief. with or without the help of congress johnson showed real determination in his effort