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Please research the article's assertions. Whatever is credible should be sourced, and what is not should be removed. </p> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:167px;"><a href="/wiki/File:George_W._Romney_official_portrait.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/George_W._Romney_official_portrait.jpg/165px-George_W._Romney_official_portrait.jpg" decoding="async" width="165" height="227" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/George_W._Romney_official_portrait.jpg/248px-George_W._Romney_official_portrait.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/George_W._Romney_official_portrait.jpg/330px-George_W._Romney_official_portrait.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1659" data-file-height="2285" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:George_W._Romney_official_portrait.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>George's official portrait.</div></div></div> <table class="infobox" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="float: right; margin: 0 0 0.5em 0.5em; text-align:left; border: 1px solid #1E90FF; width:175px;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center; color:White; background-color:#1E90FF"><b>God, guns, and freedom</b><br /><a href="/wiki/United_States_politics" title="United States politics"><font size="4" color="White"><b>U.S. Politics</b></font></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#97DEFF;" align="center"><a href="/wiki/Category:United_States_politics" title="Category:United States politics"><img alt="Icon politics USA.svg" src="/w/images/thumb/8/8b/Icon_politics_USA.svg/100px-Icon_politics_USA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" srcset="/w/images/thumb/8/8b/Icon_politics_USA.svg/150px-Icon_politics_USA.svg.png 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/8/8b/Icon_politics_USA.svg/200px-Icon_politics_USA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#1E90FF; text-align:center;"><b>Starting arguments over Thanksgiving dinner</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#97DEFF;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvestment_Act_of_2009" title="American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009">American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bradley_effect" title="Bradley effect">Bradley effect</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1992_United_States_presidential_election" title="1992 United States presidential election">1992 United States presidential election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Warren" title="Elizabeth Warren">Elizabeth Warren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mueller_investigation" title="Mueller investigation">Mueller investigation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rand_Paul" title="Rand Paul">Rand Paul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lisa_Murkowski" title="Lisa Murkowski">Lisa Murkowski</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:white; background-color:#1E90FF; text-align:center;"><b>Persons of interest</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#97DEFF;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Murder_of_Seth_Rich" title="Murder of Seth Rich">Murder of Seth Rich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Broun" title="Paul Broun">Paul Broun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Brown" title="Jerry Brown">Jerry Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikki_Haley" title="Nikki Haley">Nikki Haley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lyndon_LaRouche" title="Lyndon LaRouche">Lyndon LaRouche</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a></li></ul> <div class="vte plainlinks" style="font-size:smaller; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Template:Uspolitics" title="Template:Uspolitics">v</a> - <a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Uspolitics" title="Template talk:Uspolitics">t</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Uspolitics&action=edit">e</a></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>George Wilcken Romney</b> (1907–1995) was Governor of <a href="/wiki/Michigan" class="mw-redirect" title="Michigan">Michigan</a> from 1963 to 1969, United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1969 to 1973 under <a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a>. He is the father of <a href="/wiki/Mitt_Romney" title="Mitt Romney">Mitt Romney</a>, but unlike his son, George was not batshit crazy. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Reasons_to_like_him"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Reasons to like him</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Citizenship_debate"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Citizenship debate</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#His_son"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">His son</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Reasons_to_like_him">Reasons to like him</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Romney&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Reasons to like him">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li>George was very much in favor of <a href="/wiki/Civil_rights" title="Civil rights">civil rights</a>, refusing to budge from this in the face of criticism from his fellow <a href="/wiki/Mormon" class="mw-redirect" title="Mormon">Mormons</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> Martin Luther King himself considered endorsing him for president!</li> <li>He shifted to an anti-<a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a> stance after actually visiting <a href="/wiki/Vietnam" title="Vietnam">Vietnam</a>.</li> <li>He enacted legislation as Secretary that helped to put an end to widespread housing discrimination, thus setting the stage for the first known lawsuit against <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> in 1973.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup></li> <li>As Secretary, Romney secretly tried to go further than the Fair Housing Act allowed by trying to coerce the city of Warren, <a href="/wiki/Michigan" class="mw-redirect" title="Michigan">Michigan</a> into integrating its housing under penalty of loss of federal funds. When Nixon found out about this, he forced Romney to back down because Nixon was afraid of losing the white suburban racist vote in the 1972 election. Romney eventually chose to resign after being hamstrung by Nixon.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup></li> <li>He was in favor of <a href="/wiki/Affirmative_action" title="Affirmative action">affirmative action</a>.</li> <li>He was one of the last "progressive conservative" Republicans who put up a fight toward the right-ward shift of his party in 1968, when he ran for the Republican presidential nomination.</li> <li>His beloved wife Lenore was supportive of the idea of universal health coverage in America.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Citizenship_debate">Citizenship debate</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Romney&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Citizenship debate">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Romney was the subject of a <a href="/wiki/Birtherism" class="mw-redirect" title="Birtherism">citizenship debate</a> long before <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a>. As he was born in <a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a> to American parents, a case could have been made that he was not a citizen of the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> by birth. However, very few people attempted to use such an argument against him whenever he ran for the Republican presidential nomination. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="His_son">His son</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Romney&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: His son">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Unfortunately, his son is much farther to the right than George, and one wishes that this had not been the case (but his son is a 'moderate' position within the current Republican Party, where hard-liners have a strong stake). </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Romney&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rockefeller_Republican" title="Rockefeller Republican">Rockefeller Republican</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Romney&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; font-size:80%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2012/01/26/mormons-and-the-civil-rights-act/">Mormons and the Civil Rights Act</a> by Ed Brayton (January 26, 2012) <i>Patheos</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2186612-major-landlord-accuse-of-antiblack-bias-in-city.html">Major Landlord Accused of Antiblack Bias in City</a> by Morris Kaplan (October 16, 1973) <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.sciencenews.org/article/military-towns-integration-segregation-united-states">Military towns are the most racially integrated places in the U.S. Here’s why: After a 1930s U.S. government policy cemented segregation, the military pushed back</a> by Sujata Gupta (February 8, 2022 at 9:00 am) <i>Science News</i>. 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