The Real Romney (46 page)
Authors: Michael Kranish,Scott Helman
57 “He spoke about”: Interview with Peter Davenport, 2011.
57 “He didn’t want his parents”: Jack Thomas, “Ann Romney’s Sweetheart Deal,”
The Boston Globe
, October 20, 1994.
58 Mitt’s older brother, Scott: Interview with Scott Romney, 2007.
58 “cut back”: Interview with Alan Abbott, 2011.
58 “It was especially”: Interview with Mike Roake.
58 A campus rally was headlined: Harris,
Dreams Die Hard
, 125.
59 “You don’t stand a chance”: Ibid., 135.
59 Harris . . . won the election: Ibid., 133–135.
60 850 students: “Draft Tests at Stanford Under Way,”
Oakland Tribune
, May 21, 1966.
60 Harris not among them: Harris had marched to the sit-in with other protesters but said he did not join them in staying overnight because he had concerns about the legality of it.
60
SPEAK OUT
: Jay Thorwaldson, “Governor’s Son Pickets the Pickets,”
Palo Alto Times
, May 20, 1966, George Romney collection, box 3-V, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan. The circumstances of that day were described in an interview with Romney’s classmate William Black in 2011.
60 “Down with mob rule”: Thorwaldson, “Governor’s Son Pickets the Pickets.”
60 “Come out”: Interview with Mitt Romney, 2007.
60 “We had animated”: Ibid.
60 “a zero”: Interview with David Harris. Harris said he knew George Romney’s son was on campus but didn’t remember interacting with him.
61 “There were some wards”: Interview with Barry Mayo, 2007.
62 Some non-Mormons in Utah: Wallace Turner, “Suit over Draft in Utah Attacks Mormon Missionary Deferments,”
The New York Times
, February 7, 1970.
62 “the substantial number”: Interview with Richard Leedy, 2007.
62 “I was supportive”: Interview with Mitt Romney.
62 “I was not planning”: Joe Battenfeld, “GOP Senate Hopeful Romney Got Draft Deferment for Vietnam,”
Boston Herald
, May 2, 1994.
63 the number 300: Mitt Romney’s Selective Service record, No. 20-67-47-252.
63 “based on thin tissue”: David Kirkpatrick, “Romney’s Life Took a Turn in France,”
The New York Times
, November 17, 2007.
63 Though Romney’s parents: Interview with Dane McBride, 2011.
63 If he didn’t, she told him: Ben Bradlee, Jr., “Romney Seeks New Chapter in Success,”
The Boston Globe
, August 7, 1994.
64 In the 1950s: “Country Information: France,” January 29, 2010, www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/58571/Country-information-France.html.
64 LeHavre: “LeHavre, the City Rebuilt by Auguste Perret,” http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1181.
65 Romney shared a one-bedroom apartment: Interview with Donald K. Miller, then Romney’s senior companion, 2007.
66 “Bang!” Interview with Mitt Romney.
66 Romney would take a long, hot bath: Interview with Donald K. Miller.
66 “There were about 20 guys”: Swidey and Paulson, “Touched by Tragedy, a Leader Emerges from a Life of Privilege.”
67 “had a personality”: Interview with Marie-Blanche Caussé, 2007.
67
Think and Grow Rich
: Napoleon Hill,
Think and Grow Rich
, ebook, www.archive.org/details/Think_and_Grow_Rich, 1, 160–175.
68 “We were red-blooded”: Interview with Dane McBride.
68 “great message”: Interviews with Dane McBride, 2007 and 2011.
68 “singing, basketball exhibitions”: Mitt Romney to his parents, 16 July 1968, Box 3—Early Series, George Romney Papers, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.
69 Romney later said: Bradlee, “Romney Seeks New Chapter in Success.”
69 “As you can imagine”: Lawrence Wright, “Lives of the Saints,”
The New Yorker
, January 21, 2002.
69 “On a mission”: Kirkpatrick, “Romney’s Life Took a Turn in France.”
69 “more of a teaching experience”: Interview with Mitt Romney.
70 “History was changing”: Interview with Paul Richardson, 2011.
70 “There were plenty of people”: Interviews with David Harris, 2007 and 2011.
71 “inherit the kingdom of God”: “Conversion,” http://lds.org/study/topics/conversion?lang=eng&query=conversion.
71 So Jim stood outside: Swidey and Paulson, “Touched by Tragedy, a Leader Emerges from a Life of Privilege.”
71 “one of the greatest missionaries”: Brock Brower, “Puzzling Front Runner,”
Life
, May 5, 1967.
72 “a social outcast”: Swidey and Paulson, “Touched by Tragedy, a Leader Emerges from a Life of Privilege.”
72 “I was thrilled to stand in”: George Romney to Mitt Romney, February 16, 1967, and March 6, 1967, George Romney papers, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.
73 “as far as I am concerned”: Clark Raymond Mollenhoff,
George Romney, Mormon in Politics
(New York: Meredith Press, 1968), 256.
73 “It is unthinkable”: Ibid., 337.
73 “been unable to bring”: B. J. Widick,
Detroit: City of Race and Class Violence
(Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989), 170–172.
73 Romney took the riots to heart: Mollenhoff,
George Romney
, 287–288, 292.
74 the greatest brainwashing: Neil Swidey, “Lessons of the Father,”
The Boston Globe Magazine
, August 13, 2006.
75 “blurt and retreat habits”: Ibid., 301.
75 ”I would be VERY happy”: Mitt Romney to his parents, 16 July 1968, Box 3, Early Series, George Romney Papers, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.
75 The news got worse: Mollenhoff,
George Romney
, 253; Associated Press, “Nixon Favored by Poll,” November 20, 1967.
75 “Mitt was very passionate”: Interviews with Byron Hansen, 2007 and 2011.
75 “When my dad said”: Interview with Mitt Romney.
76 Romney had initially believed: Battenfeld, “GOP Senate Hopeful Romney Got Draft Deferment for Vietnam.”
76 “I think we were brainwashed”: Newsweek Feature Services, “Cabinet Kids Against the War,”
The Boston Globe
, May 31, 1970.
76 “The brainwash thing”: Swidey, “Lessons of the Father”; interview with Jane Romney. Neil Swidey, a reporter for
The Boston Globe
, showed the footage to Mitt Romney.
76 Shortly afterward, George headed: Clayton Knowles, “Romney, Back in U.S., Calls His Trip ‘Beneficial,’ ”
The New York Times
, January 4, 1968.
76 “It is clear to me”: “Romney Quits Race for President,”
The Boston Globe
, February 29, 1968.
77 “We were the only Americans”: Interviews with Dane McBride.
77 demands: “The French Worker Wants to Join the Affluent Society, Not to Wreck It,”
The New York Times
, June 16, 1968.
77 Communication was difficult: Kirkpatrick, “Romney’s Life Took a Turn in France.” The article quoted a fellow missionary, Byron Hansen, as saying the lack of respect for authority in France “affected Mitt.”
77–78 “The feeling that we had”: Interview with Dane McBride.
78 “It’s a horrid climax”: Leola Anderson journal, May 28 to June 5, 1968, Anderson family document.
Chapter 4: A Brush with Tragedy
79 “We’ll be right there”: Interviews with Richard Anderson, 2007 and 2011, and http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~timbaloo/SuchALife/pages/Ch3/8Miss/8Miss05.htm.
79 On their way south: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~timbaloo/SuchALife/pages/Ch3/8Miss/8Miss24b1.htm.
80 climbed into the front seat: Interviews with occupants of the car, 2007.
80 A thirty-four-year-old man: Article in
Sud-Ouest
, a French regional newspaper, June 17, 1968.
80 Romney stopped: Interview with Mitt Romney, 2007.
80 “We were all talking”: Ibid.
80 A Catholic priest:
Sud-Ouest
article, June 17, 1968; interviews with people in the car.
80 The collision collapsed: Interview with Bruce Robinson, 2007.
80 “It happened so quickly”: Interview with Mitt Romney.
80 They were driving slowly: Interview with Suzanne Farel, 2007.
80
“Il est mort”
: Interview with Bruce Robinson.
80 Rescuers had to pry him: Interview with Mitt Romney.
81 “I remember the call”: Interview with Jim Davies, 2007.
81 Crushed by the impact: Richard Anderson, writing in Leola Anderson’s journal, September 19, 1968.
81 “a blur of pain”: Ibid.
81 “Tragedy struck”: Interview with Byron Hansen, 2007, and Hansen’s journal.
81 “When we initially arrived”: Interview with Byron Hansen.
81 The doctors had declined: Interviews with Joel McKinnon, 2007 and 2011; and Richard Anderson, writing in Leola Anderson’s journal.
81 “I was making rounds”: Interview with Bruce Robinson.
81 The family was also worried: Interviews with André Salarnier, 2007; and Bruce Robinson, 2007 and 2011.
81 “Mitt was just coming out”: Interview with Bruce Robinson.
82 “He probably came”: Ibid.
82 The driver of the Mercedes:
Sud-Ouest
article, June 17, 1968; and interviews with French Mormons who responded to the accident. A priest at the parish in Sireuil confirmed in 2007 that the church’s former pastor, now deceased, was Albert Marie.
82 Romney said the truck driver: Interview with Mitt Romney.
82 “Duane Anderson refused”: Interview with André Salarnier.
82 David Wood said he remembered: Interview with David Wood, 2007.
82 Romney has no such recollection: Interview with Mitt Romney.
82 “We were conservative”: Interview with David Wood.
82 “Oh, yeah, I was”: Interview with Mitt Romney.
82 “Mitt was not”: Interview with Richard Anderson.
83 Duane Anderson: Interviews with Bruce Robinson; and Richard Anderson, writing in Leola Anderson’s journal.
83 For Mitt, the fatal accident: Interview with Mitt Romney.
83 advice on his love life: Interview with Richard Anderson.
83 “It was a very difficult”: Interview with Mitt Romney.
83 Church leaders called: Interview with J. Fielding Nelson, 2011.
