Biden awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to Hillary Clinton, 18 others

[JustAnotherGen]

10. Lovely

All of them. Including George Romney the "hard truth" teller.

https://www.propublica.org/article/living-apart-how-the-government-betrayed-a-landmark-civil-rights-law

The 1968 Fair Housing Act, passed months earlier in the tumultuous aftermath of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, directed the government to “affirmatively further” fair housing. Romney believed those words gave him the authority to pressure predominantly white communities to build more affordable housing and end discriminatory zoning practices.

Romney ordered HUD officials to reject applications for water, sewer and highway projects from cities and states where local policies fostered segregated housing.

He dubbed his initiative “Open Communities” and did not clear it with the White House. As word spread that HUD was turning down grants, Nixon's supporters in the South and in white Northern suburbs took their complaints directly to the president.

Romney’s stance made him a pariah within the administration. Nixon shut down the program, refused to meet with his housing secretary and finally drove him from the Cabinet.

I consider him the God Father of anti red lining. He tried to help Black Americans.