Word: romneys
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Before making any major personal decision, Michigan's George Romney usually spends an entire day in seclusion meditating and seeking divine guidance. Last week, after a day at home, Mormon Romney had the word. The nation-if not the Deity-would have been very much surprised if it had been...
...effect, Governor Romney has been campaigning for the presidency since February, when he ventured into six states to decry the decline of American morality. Nine months later-and nine months before the G.O.P. convention in Miami-Romney finally proclaimed what everyone knew...
...announced candidate, Romney is in the unique position of having to stage a comeback at the moment he leaves the starting line. For months his popularity has been skidding largely because of such gaffes as his "brainwashing" admission in September. To have any hope of winning the crucial New Hampshire primary on March 12, he will have to elucidate comprehensive-and comprehensible-positions on foreign policy and pervasive domestic issues. Richard Nixon,* meanwhile, is gearing his campaign in the Granite State to emphasize his expertise on foreign affairs and other major issues; Romney plans to jog through the street-corner...
Many Republicans, including some of Romney's avowed supporters, now believe that the Michigander's campaign will turn into a holding operation, coalescing the party's moderates and keeping them in the forefront until another middle-of-the-road candidate with a realistic chance of gaining the nomination can step in. Cheering Romney last week on his announcement, Nelson Rockefeller observed: "A wise national Republican Party will choose a moderate, able, winning candidate in 1968." Despite all of Rocky's disclaimers, some Republicans thought that rather than prescribing for Romney, he was describing Nelson Rockefeller...
...Michigan aboard his chartered plane-appropriately, a de Havilland Dove-the Governor went straight to the William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak to pick up his wife Lenore, who had suffered a broken arm and dislocated shoulder two days earlier when she slipped in the shower at the Romneys' Bloomfield Hills home. For reasons that go beyond personal affection, Romney's aides are hoping she mends swiftly. Lenore is a considerable asset on the stump, provides a warmly feminine counterpoint to her husband's granite-jawed, combative style, and helps calm him when the going gets rough...