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...Secretary George Romney has campaigned hard for increased aid and, more important, many private-industry groups that for years opposed public housing have lined up in support of the newer subsidy plans. After all, developers can now plan projects themselves and make a profit building or renting the structures...
...Cabinet members who have publicly taken issue with Nixon are Hickel and George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Both are ex-Governors accustomed to command, and both are frustrated by Nixon's isolation behind the palace guard of Assistants John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman. Romney told TIME Correspondent Jess Cook: "I think the key question that the President is going to have to decide is whether he is to have White House staff people basically responsible in policy areas and playing leadership roles, or whether the Cabinet officers are going to do it." Romney has strong feelings...
...December gave the President stand-by authority to allow the Federal Reserve to regulate the terms, amount and interest rates of all forms of credit. Wright Patman, chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, last week denounced Nixon for not using that power. Within the Nixon Cabinet, George Romney has spoken in favor of credit controls. He complains that money that should be going into housing is being diverted to borrowers who have more economic "muscle...
...announced guests in the oval office seemed to have been selected to erase that image of insensitivity and show the President is indeed listening to all sorts of people. Daniel Patrick Moynihan and his domestic concerns had a hearing before the Chief, as did George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Donald Rumsfeld, Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, and Alexander Heard, the President's temporary new adviser on campus affairs...
...politicians, including several cabinet members, are more worried by the threat of recession. Treasury Secretary Kennedy, HUD's Secretary Romney and Postmaster General Blount have all flirted with the idea of price and wage controls as a possible way to stop inflation without paying too high a price in unemployment. Nixon has slapped them down hard, but he seems to be getting nervous about sticking with the professors. The professors may well be correct in thinking that their course will stop runaway inflation without plunging the U.S. into a deep recession. If they are wrong, however, the political damage...