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Article: MITT ROMNEY - ONE ON ONE BAY STATE'S GOVERNOR-ELECT TALKS ABOUT POLITICS, HIS GOALS, AND HIS DAD
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 10, 2002
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BELMONT - For Mitt Romney, there was pleasing symmetry in
Tuesday's victory.
The governor-elect is 55, the same age his father, George Romney,
was when first elected governor of Michigan, which was, he points
out, exactly 40 years ago. The elder Romney became Michigan's
governor after spending the first part of his life in business, just
as Mitt Romney has done.
But George Romney did not live to enjoy those coincidences. A
tireless soldier in his son's unsuccessful 1994 US Senate run, he was
not standing beside him as the red, white, and blue confetti rained
down last week. And the younger Romney keenly felt the absence.
"I would have loved to have had my dad there," Romney said. "And 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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