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Article: For Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, his life is his father's legacy
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- November 4, 2007
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From his slicked, carefully coifed hair to his data-driven business principles to his unwavering devotion to his oft-maligned Mormon faith, Mitt Romney is the spitting image of his father physically, professionally and morally.
The depth of their bond can be seen in one early story.
As an 18-year-old, Mitt Romney met a 15-year-old girl with whom he felt he could share his life. He then left for a year of college and a 2 1/2-year Mormon mission in France, during which time his father not only took his future wife, Ann Davies, to church, but converted her to their faith.
"Your gal looked lovely as always," George Romney wrote to his son in February 1967. "I ...
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Article: Correction: George Romney
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);
January 9, 2007 ;
228 words
...The late George Romney, a governor of Michigan and father of likely presidential candidate Mitt Romney, briefly ran for president himself in 1968. A story in Sunday's Deseret Morning News had an incorrect year.
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