In 1952, more than a decade after the Supreme Court decreed this sort of thing illegal, Richard Nixon signed a restrictive covenant ordaining that he would never sell his DC property, which he had just bought for $41K, to "persons of negro blood or extraction, or to any rented or given to negro people or any person or person of the Semitic race, blood, or origin." It goes on. [GhostsofDC via Curbed DC]
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