George W. Romney: Did The Apple Fall Far From The Tree?
Tuesday, August 28, 2012 at 8:00 AM This short interview with George Romney was originally published here on June 20, 2012. We thought it deserved a second look as the RNC ramps up tonight in Tampa.
George W. Romney is the father of Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney and was an auto industry executive who became a three-term Governor of Michigan, a Republican Presidential candidate and a member of the Nixon Cabinet. George Romney died in 1995. He was 88.
Romney was chairman and president of the American Motors Corporation when he resigned in 1962 to run, successfully, for Governor. He ran for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1968 but dropped out of the race just before the New Hampshire primary. He then served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in President Richard M. Nixon's first term.
George Romney represented the liberal wing of the Republican Party, supporting civil rights initiatives and Government social programs and opposing the war in Vietnam. His politics proved successful in Michigan, where he was elected Governor three times, by increasingly large margins.
We found this 1992 interview of the elder Romney rather profound considering the current political and economic state of affairs the United States is facing some 20-years later.
It makes one wonder what our leaders in Washinton have been doing over the past two decades , lending greater credence to the claim that "All politicians are the same."
At approximately the one minute mark of this interview, Mr. Romney mentioned Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville and how this French visitor viewed the early Americans and how they dealt with their individual problems.
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