Ambition dashed in a sound bite In George Romney, a life of accomplishment shadowed by a media gaffe The Boston Globe | July 30, 1995| | Copyright 1995 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- When George Romney arrived at the Pearly Gates, his chat with the admissions officer must have been brief. The former Michigan governor, who died Wednesday at 88, rescued the American automobile industry, ran for president and lost, then served loyally as secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1969 to 1973.

Although his HUD programs are called failures in current Washington orthodoxy, they helped thousands of families, and fewer Americans were homeless on George Romney's watch.

St. Peter, an impetuous zealot himself, must have embraced this Mormon disciple as a ...

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