MUSICIAN’S GOVT
‘Togetherness will come’ (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copy riohti PARIS, September 5. The jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie says that he is serious about running for President of the United States. If he . wins, he will appoint Muhammad Ali as Secretary of State and Duke Ellington ambassador to “any country he wants to go to.” Gillespie said in a radio interview in New York in August that he was going to run for President in 1972. He reaffirmed his candidacy this week as he wound up a fourday visit to France for a television jazz festival.
Gillespie is “deadly serious” about his campaign to unify the people of the world and do away with war.
“My philosophy is coming, anyway,” he said. “Jazz music is like a religious message. Life is getting more spiritual each day—though sometimes it sure doesn’t seem so. “The time for unification is coming; as people get more involved spiritually they see that by being together they can make it jive (work) better.”
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32705, 7 September 1971, Page 17
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