Knocking on the Door: The Federal Government's Attempt to Desegregate the SuburbsPrinceton University Press, 2010 M11 16 - 256 pages Knocking on the Door is the first book-length work to analyze federal involvement in residential segregation from Reconstruction to the present. Providing a particularly detailed analysis of the period 1968 to 1973, the book examines how the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) attempted to forge elementary changes in segregated residential patterns by opening up the suburbs to groups historically excluded for racial or economic reasons. The door did not shut completely on this possibility until President Richard Nixon took the drastic step of freezing all federal housing funds in January 1973. Knocking on the Door assesses this near-miss in political history, exploring how HUD came surprisingly close to implementing rigorous antidiscrimination policies, and why the agency's efforts were derailed by Nixon. |
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... President Richard Nixon , it was under Nixon that un- matched progress in Southern school desegregation took place and that affirmative action in employment took hold , beginning with the presi- dentially approved " Philadelphia Plan ...
... President Nixon seized upon this vulnerability. At first blush, the era of Richard Nixon's presidency (1969–74) may seem an unlikely period to identify as one in which effective federal at- tacks on residential segregation were most ...
... president exerts tight controls over administrative agencies, essentially dictating how boldly an agency may act. Congress may respond to pub- lic opposition directly by passing legislation to prohibit specific agency actions or ...
... president supercedes other factors, such as ties to inter- est groups, agency clients, or constituencies within the president's party.17 Reagan took many of his cues from Richard Nixon, who began his sec- ond term determined to have ...
... president himself. Alternatively, they may become a political li- ability to the president, as occurred with Ronald Reagan's interior secre- tary, James Watt.47 Administrative agencies may have goals that conflict with White House ...
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