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...Nixon Administration is reluctant to intervene vigorously in local housing disputes, even where federal subsidies are involved. George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, told a congressional committee last week that Washington would not cut off such funds as a means of compelling local action to facilitate residential integration. A presidential advisory panel had urged the White House to use the withholding of subsidies as a weapon, a measure favored by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. As in the school desegregation area, the federal judiciary is ahead of the executive. Items...
From a Page One story in the Post on August 6: "Lenore Romney . . . emerged today as the Michigan Republican Party's U.S. Senate nominee . . . Mrs. Romney, a 60-year-old grandmother making her first bid for elected public office...
Last week Lenore Romney, wife of HUD Chief George Romney, won a hotly contested Republican primary for U.S. Senator in Michigan...
Though not considered likely to defeat Democratic Incumbent Philip Hart, Mrs. Romney is by no means out of the race. Should she win she would become the fourth woman elected to a full six-year term in the Senate. She ran for public office because "this country is in a te rible mess in every area, and the times demand new leadership." After 21 years of volunteer service, she felt competent to provide that leadership. "Volunteer work is working with people. In a political context, is this unimportant?" she asks...
Like her husband, Lenore Romney campaigns as a defender of the home, the family and the church, but without the specific suggestions for solving the problems of the decade. She favors equal work opportunity for women but does not believe that American womankind is in need of liberation. On Viet Nam, she shares the view that the U.S. should not have entered the war, but agrees that Nixon's pace of withdrawal is the best currently possible. Something stronger will likely be needed to best Hart, a popular liberal Democrat with widespread support throughout the state...