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How can Romney run for the Republican nomination for president in 1968 if he was born in Mexico? -- Lst27 [19:47, April 4, 2004]
If one of the parents are U.S. citizens, the child can claim U.S. citizenship, no matter where the birth occurs. Bkonrad | Talk 19:51, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)
The entry for natural-born citizen shows that citizens by birthright are eligible. Those born in the U.S. and those born to U.S. citizens can be President; naturalized citizens and non-citizens are excluded. Ubermonkey 18:04, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I've moved the (uncited) presidential eligibility material in this article to George Romney presidential campaign, 1968, where it can be explored in more depth without weighting concerns. Wasted Time R ( talk) 14:35, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
Footnote #7, which attests proof that George Romney's parents Gaskell and Anna Pratt Romney "elected" American citizenship, is now (27 Oct 2012) a dead link. Genehisthome ( talk) 20:31, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
There is a list of references at the bottom, but this page does not conform to the standard sourcing of Wikipedia. This needs to be corrected. 68.227.248.58 04:53, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
Shouldn't his lieutenant governor, Thaddeus John Lesinski, be mentioned in this article? One interesting fact about him is that he was a democrat and defeated Romney's running mate. tjl82090 | talk [19:16, December 8, 2006]
This is an informative piece. I have one criticism: The reference to "The Manchurian Candidate" isn't really a propos. The film was about brainwashing in the Korean War, not the Vietnamese. Besides, the film was, as I understand it, taken out of distribution with the assassination of JFK. Not many Americans had seen it until its reissue, in 1987, I believe. I don't think many people would have associated Romney's "brainwashing" with the film. jp [05:36, February 14, 2007 John f. phillips]
I've made a post similar to this one over at Talk:John Swainson. This news article from 1963 [1] describes George Romney declining the invitation to accompany Martin Luther King on the "Walk for Freedom." Romney declined because, as a Mormon, he did not wish to walk on a Sunday. That was the reason as reported at the time by the NY Times, as repeated here: [2]. So I'm going to edit the George Romney article to reflect the fact that Mitt Romney is wrong on this point about his father. Qworty ( talk) 02:02, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
"Romney was born in Colonia Dublán, Galeana, in the Mexican state of Chihuahua to Gaskell Romney (1871-1955), an American of English ancestry, and wife Anna Amelia Pratt (1876-1926), born to a New England and Scottish father and a German mother."
I thought this was only acceptable (atleast in America) if you are ethnically Mexican. If Mother Theresa who was born in the Republic of Macedonia) came to the US, she herself and I believe most Americans would consider her Albanian-American not Macedonian-American (because she was born in Skopje, Macedonia), or Indian-American (because that's where she was a missionary). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.121.247.116 ( talk) 20:31, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
How is one "ethnically Mexican"? If you are dancing around the term mestizo, then you are wrong. There are a lot of Mexicans that are not mestizo and are still, in fact, Mexican. If he was born on Mexican soil, he is then, by Mexican law, a Mexican (Title I, Chapter II, Article 30 of the Mexican constitution, states that "Mexican nationality is acquired by birth or by naturalization. A. Mexicans by birth are: I. Those who are born in the territory of the Republic, regardless of the nationality of the parents"). Now, he may have had dual citizenship because he was the child of citizens. One could then argue that his parents, in fleeing the country because of the federal government's opposition to polygamy, were defecting (but one would have to see the U.S. Law at the period of his parents exit to Mexico). Also, Mexican citizenship is perpetual (Title I, Chapter IV, Article 37, Section A); therefore, even if he is a U.S. Citizen, he is a Mexican. Even if you look to the Constitution of 1857, which was the one current during his period in Mexico, he is a Mexican according to Mexican law (Title I, Section II, Article 30, Subsection I); however, what I'm more curious about is whether his parents bought property in Mexico or not. If they bought property in Mexico, this transaction was indication of a desire to become a naturalized Mexican citizen--because according to Title I, Section II, Article 30, Subsection III of the Mexican constitution of 1857, foreigners buying real estate in Mexico are Mexicans. (Now, one would have to analyze what provisions were in place at the time for foreigners to buy real estate in Mexican territory. Today, this is not possible.) So, in my opinion, he is Mexican-American or a Mexican-born American. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.147.241.133 ( talk) 15:00, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
I was born in Mexico and only lived there until I was 1.5 years old. I am 21 now and have lived the majority of my life in the U.S.A however my family migrated directly from Spain so if you wanted to use semantics I am a Spano-Mexican but the tuth is that for all intents and purposes I'm Mexican. No matter how long I've lived away from it or how far away I am. It is blatantly incorrect to cite a Mexican born citizen as an American even if his parents were from the U.S.A. That is like saying a German-American was just German because of his parents, completely neglecting where he was born. Mexico is much like the U.S.A in that it so long has served as a refuge for many different kinds of people from all over the world. Just like me. I am a Mexican. Much like when an American grows up in another country, he is still American by Birthright. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.203.23.115 ( talk) 00:13, 18 January 2012 (UTC)
Trying to ignore the huge stupid comment of "Ethnically Mexican" I will try to explain that: Mr. Romney was born in Mexico and as was said here, under the Mexican Constitution he was Mexican. Actually Mitt Romney himself is Mexican if we follow the mexican nationality law. I really don't know if Mr. Romney had a Mexican birth certificate, if he had one, definitely he is Mexican-American, if he didn’t, he is an American who was born in Mexico with the right of claim for the Mexican Citizenship and had it immediately. But as far as I know Mr. Romney never considered himself a Mexican and DEFINITELY the son doesn't too. (And finally: Please we are in 2012, is incredible there still are people thinking of all the citizens in one country is "ethnically" the same and more incredible if we are talking about Mexico which has received waves of immigration and now has a population of 112 millions, please get a book, travel or shut up.) Hpav7 ( talk) 07:56, 03 August 2012 (UTC)
Note that he was born in 1907, before the current constitution (1917) was enacted. When he was born the 1857 constitution was in place, which followed only a Jus sanguinis principle. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.196.29.80 ( talk) 23:43, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
I'd love to know something about George W. Romney's formative years.
What places did he live? What schools did he attend? What stands out from his youth? What were his parents' occupations? Cumbre ( talk) 20:19, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
Paragraph 4+5 discuss his faith. Paragraph 6 discusses his political aspirations.
We should create a new section for paragraph 4+5 or merge it with the section on Missionary work, marriage and family, early career.
paragraph 6 might be better at the start of Governor of Michigan. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mantion ( talk • contribs) 19:16, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
Due to a mention about this article in a blog, I am semi-protecting it to avoid a SNAFU. Bearian ( talk) 20:44, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
The article reads that Romney "was introduced to members of the peerage and the Oxford Group." I am not sure what "the peerage" is unless this is a grammatical problem. My bigger question is, what makes his meeting members of the Oxford Group relevant? Did he associate with them or write about his being impressed by their positions? A little clarification should be there.-- Canadiandy talk 15:57, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
"Romney experienced British sights and culture and was introduced to prominent members of the community [37] including members of the British nobility."
Is this helpful?-- Canadiandy talk 20:12, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
There is a move discussion in progress that indirectly affects this page. Please participate at Talk:George Romney#Requested move and not in this talk page section. Thank you. older ≠ wiser 21:01, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
A paragraph in the section reads "As World War II raged overseas, Romney (who was soon beyond draft age...." In World War II, the draft age was 18 to 44. Since George Romney wasn't 44 until the time of the Korean War, this is false. Shemp Howard, Jr. ( talk) 15:39, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
I edited two instances in this article that could lead a reasonable reader to think that the LDS church officially thought that black people were inferior to white people and that the LDS church had an official stance against the civil rights movement. Stapley's letter to Romney wasn't sent as some sort of official pronouncement of the church's position. It was sent as one individual to another individual. He says as much in the letter: http://mormonmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/delbert_stapley.pdf. I also changed the statement that inferred that the past church policy on black people necessarily suggests that the church taught that they were inferior. That is a matter of debate. It's enough to say that his personal experiences shaped his willingness to support the civil rights movement without bringing in the highly debatable idea that the LDS church taught that black people were inferior. Cominginsecond ( talk) 20:37, 19 January 2012 (UTC)cominginsecond
Shd infobox go, first, gov'ship; second, cabinet sec'y (e.g., cf. Howard Baker...)?-- Hodgdon's secret garden ( talk) 05:05, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
Senator is more important than sec'y of state? Backbencher (Ron Paul, Michele Backmann) than cabinet member? No, one's got to enjoy the kind of institutional clout Paul Ryan does for member of lower House to rival a top admin post, in my opinion. And w/rgd to every case I surfed to, where the situation is similar to George's, chronological sequencing was adjusted by consensus of page editors to give top billing whatever post is indisputably the most important: along with Baker there is " Howard Dean," "[[George J. Mitchell," " Jerry Brown," " Grover Cleveland," " John Quincy Adams." Then there is " Jon Huntsman, Jr. (which, if I had the ambition to be snipey, I'd try to insinuate was an outlier rendered in that fashion by...you[? JOKE!....]).-- Hodgdon's secret garden ( talk) 11:40, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
but here is Geo's piece written for the Det Free Press: "My religion is my most important possession. ..."-- Hodgdon's secret garden ( talk) 10:08, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
Then there's this:
A Congressional Research Service report published in November [2011] comes closest to answering that question.
“There have been legitimate legal issues raised concerning those born outside of the country to U.S. citizens,” the report states. “The weight of legal and historical authority indicates that the term ‘natural born’ citizen would mean a person who is entitled to U.S. citizenship ‘by birth’ or ‘at birth,’ either by being born ’in’ the United States and under its jurisdiction, even those born to alien parents; by being born abroad to U.S. citizen-parents; or by being born in other situations meeting legal requirements for U.S. citizenship ‘at birth.’”
Romney was born to American citizens living in a Mormon church colony in Chihuahua, Mexico.
Even though he wasn’t born in a United States territory or state, George Romney was given citizenship at birth because he was born to American citizens, essentially granting him the status of a natural-born citizen.
“When you’re born outside the United States to [U.S.] citizens, you have citizenship at birth,” explained Peter J. Spiro, a professor of law and an expert on the law of citizenship at Temple University. “You don’t have to do anything to claim your citizenship. You are a citizen from birth.”
-- Hodgdon's secret garden ( talk) 06:01, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
Category:American expatriates in Mexico? (Also please see the Request for Comment on the Mitt Romney blp's talkpage here: Talk:Mitt_Romney#.22Of_Mexican_descent.22_category.)-- Hodgdon's secret garden ( talk) 04:57, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
I have a dream this afternoon that one day right here in Detroit, Negroes will be able to buy a house or rent a house anywhere that their money will carry them and that they will be able to get a job.--- LINK
Caption: "MLK's first rendition of the I have a Dream Speech in Detroit MI, June 23rd 1963. It was released by Gordy records, a subsidiary of Motown and can therefore be considered an early Motown single." [Transcription from point 0:20 of audio clip]
A letter to King in '67 disparaging Romney's church--Mormons'--then- deplorable stance toward people of color: here (link; a stance which Romney himself was very much in disagreement with; see here). IAC was Nixon's offer/R's acceptance of HUD post ('68) due desires to help implement equal housing legisltn, in response to the era's civ. rights movement?-- Hodgdon's secret garden ( talk) 01:06, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
The march had been officially titled, in the lead-up to the event, The "Walk to Freedom" but then after the event it was so grand-- biggest to-date (Det. News image)-- it became "Grand" and "March----" ... so which would be the more appropriate designation on wiki?-- Hodgdon's secret garden ( talk) 06:23, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
In paragraph four of the section on his 1968 presidential campaign, is it necessary to use the word "oaf"? The phrase "gaffe-prone" seems accurate enough without descending to pettiness. Asburyparker ( talk) 01:39, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
The exiting sentence "The perception grew that Romney was gaffe-prone." is appropriate, without adding the phrase "and an oaf" which is pointless. Wikipedia is not a forum for random insults. Asburyparker ( talk) 17:10, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
but I thot a qt from it interesting.
Plas, Gerald O. (1967), The Romney Riddle, Berwyn Publishers, p. 16,"...statement he makes, even when a statement contradicts his opinion of five minutes before."21 Lapses such as these, and Romney's American Motors background have earned him the nickname, "the Rambler." The religious zeal with which Romney supports his opinions comes to him naturally. He is a devout Mormon as was his father and his father's father before him. His grandfather, Miles Park Romney, was a Mormon of the old school....
-- Hodgson-Burnett's Secret Garden ( talk) 11:06, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
If the article states that both parents were natural born American citizens (I can't remember if it does or not), I believe the wording would need to be tweaked...wrt the circumstances by which Anna remained/became a US citizen. That is, it may be in dispute whether she was natural born American or whether she gained her American citizenship through marriage to Gaskell, who himself was a natural-born US citizen. This question arises because of the fact that
Anna's father became a naturalized Mexican citizen (and, this at a time when it was relatively rare for a North American or European nationale to do so--or so I believe). (...Also, her brother, at least, spoke flawless Spanish: Beecher, Dale (1975),
Rey L. Pratt and the Mexican Mission (PDF), vol. 3,
BYU Studies, p. 2, [...Having] grown up in Mexico[, ]Rey learned to speak Spanish like a native.
. ((Also interesting--well, at least to me, lol--is that rey is Spanish for "king" and that his middle name, Lucero, is also the Spanish word for "light.")))--
Hodgdon's secret garden (
talk) 14:30, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Nonetheless, with their father's living not in the colonies but Ciuda'd de Me'xico - 1883-1887, while Anna was approx. 7 to 12, I would not be terribly surprised if she was also able to speak Spanish at least a little, unlike what "our" (WP's) Geo. Romney bio states .....even if she did not eventually become as proficient in the language as Rey did: who, obv., lived in Mexico City between the time he was about 5-10.-- Hodgdon's secret garden ( talk) 23:20, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Then in chapter 5:Once an old Mexican man came to our house and knocked on our door. When I answered, I said, "Buenos dias, Sen~o'r," and he said, "Buenos dias, Nin~a." I could see that he had many, many bird cages piled one on top of the other, and he was carrying them on a long pole. Inside each bird cage was a bird. Some of the cages had pretty grey birds in them, and some had red birds. The red birds had little top knots on the top of thier heads and very sharp beaks with which to eat seeds. The Mexican man took the bird cages off the pole one at a time and set them upon the porch floor. Then he said, "All my birds sing. They all have a beautiful song. Will you buy one of my birds to sing for you each day? My birds sing most all day, and while they are singing, you never get lonesome. Will you buy one, please?"
"Just a moment," I said. "I will catch my mother and ask her."
---- LINK
Actually, it's amazing how well the author, Gladys (Pratt) Young, can remember snippets of dialogue in a language she doesn't even understand.</facetious> From a few chapters later:the last thing I can remember of our first nite’s camp was the lovely sound of my mother’s and my brothers’ voices singing together there by the firelight under the beautiful moon. They sang all the Spanish songs they had learned in Mexico, and they were lovely songs, like La Golondrina, La Paloma, Cielito Lindo, and the Fandango. I believe I will never hear any more beautiful music than I heard those nites as they sang together to the music of Carl’s guitar.
A local Apache is described to Gladys by her mother as belonging to a group of natives thatWhen the Mexican children saw me coming, they came out to meet me with gay calls of “Qué hubole, amiga mía!” They took me by the hand and led me into the cabin. There the mamas and the older sisters were busy grinding parched corn into a fine meal. They ground it by pushing back and forth the corn between a long, smooth, partly round stone called a mano, and a rough, partly hollow stone called a metate that looked something like a bowl. The corn was warm, and so they scooped up a handful of it and gave it to me to eat. This is called pinole. They gave me also a big piece of sweet cane sugar that is called piloncillo. I thanked them and wandered back toward the cabin, eating my pinole and piloncillo.
-- Hodgdon's secret garden ( talk) 03:23, 14 February 2012 (UTC)were called apachurreros de huesos, which means crushers of bones, because that is what they did to their victims when they captured them. [Continuing with her mother's story]: Now it so happened that the little girl, eight years old, saw that her little brother, six years old, had been hurt. The Indians were busy with the other people of the house, and so they didn’t pay close attention to these two children. So the little girl dragged the little boy to the chicken coop nearby, tore her apron in wide pieces of cloth, wrapped them tightly around the bleeding wound in the boy’s hip, and then covered him all over with straw.
To say that R. was American Motors' chief executive officer is not wrong but the term/initialism itself is fairly, if not wholly, anachronistic.
(((........... To check, I first GoogleNews'd
- "George Romney" "CEO" w custom range 1960-1970 and https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1%2F1%2F1960%2Ccd_max%3A1%2F1%2F1970&tbm=nws&q="George+Romney"++"CEO"&oq="George+Ro got one hit, for the So. Vietnamese prime minister with Ceo at the end of his name--vs.
- https://www.google.com/search?q="George+Romney"++"Chairman+of+American"&hl=en&gl=us&sa=X&ei=2-E3T6rvA6jW0QHzhrTbAg&ved=0CBYQpwUoCw&source=lnt&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1%2F1 10 hits for "George Romney" "chairman of American,"
- https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1%2F1%2F1960%2Ccd_max%3A1%2F1%2F1970&tbm=nws&q="George+Romney"++"president+of+American 122 hits for "George Romney" "president of American,"
- https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1%2F1%2F1960%2Ccd_max%3A1%2F1%2F1970&tbm=nws&q="George+Romney"++"Motors+president"&oq=" 46 hits for "George Romney" "Motors president," and
- https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1%2F1%2F1960%2Ccd_max%3A1%2F1%2F1970&tbm=nws&q="George+Romney"++"manager+of+American"&o 4 hits for "George Romney" "manager of American."
-- Hodgson-Burnett's Secret Garden ( talk) 16:17, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
-- Hodgson-Burnett's Secret Garden ( talk) 10:41, 13 February 2012 (UTC)To sell small cars and keep American Motors in the automobile business, at times a seemingly hopeless task, George Wilcken Romney has needed two things in great abundance: Hot missionary zeal and vast physical stamina. The graying, 50-year-old AMC chairman and president (pictured above, at work and in his Rambler) comes usually well equipped with both.
-- Hodgson-Burnett's Secret Garden ( talk) 07:35, 13 February 2012 (UTC)Nixon combined effective campaign strategy with good fortune. William Safire and other campaign advisers convinced Nixon to craft a series of policy statements on the war to be delivered in national radio and television addresses. Aimed at distancing Nixon from the administration and staking out his own position more specifically, these speeches would undoubtedly have produced pointed questions from the media and Nixon's opponents on both sides of the aisle that could have slowed Nixon's momentum and conceivably opened the door to a challenge at the convention by a Rockefeller-Reagan ticket. Fortunately for Nixon, his first speech was scheduled for 31 March 1968 and was canceled when his staff learned of President Johnson's impending speech. Nixon took full advantage of Johnson's withdrawal from the race. The following day, he issued a statement declaring a self-imposed "moratorium" on comments on Vietnam. By doing so, he insulated himself from criticism on the war while retaining the flexibility to break his silence when he saw fit since Vietnam remained a critical issue in the campaign. Thus he was able to avoid the pitfalls of a specific policy on Vietnam that felled Romney.--- Andrew Johns, docrt candidate - UCSB, Spr. 2000 Mich Historical Review
-- Hodgson-Burnett's Secret Garden ( talk) 09:50, 13 February 2012 (UTC)After he won the 1962 governor's race in Michigan, I still assumed that he was just another liberal Republican with a salesman's spiel. Saul Alinsky, that cantankerous "professional radical," told me off. He said that he knew Romney well, and found in him a unique political insight. From Saul, the slum organizer, this was liberal praise indeed. In the ten years since I had first run into Alinsky's unusual work, I had never heard him call a businessman or a politician, let alone a Republican, anything but a fink.--- George Harris in Romney's Way (Prentice-Hall, '68)
-- Hodgson-Burnett's Secret Garden ( talk) 06:40, 13 February 2012 (UTC)When the association met....for its sixty-first convention, Richard Nixon had been in the White House for about eighteen months. ... Several speakers...directed pointed critiques at the Nixon administration. ...Stephen Gill Spottswood...declared: “For the first time since Woodrow Wilson, we have a national administration that can rightly be characterized as anti-Negro. This is the first time since 1920 that the national administration had made it a matter of calculated policy to work against the needs and aspirations of the largest minority of its citizens.” Spottswood then listed nine instances of Nixon’s “anti-Negro” policies, including efforts to delay school desegregation, the nominations of Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court, attempts to weaken the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and signing of defense contracts with textile companies that had records of employment discrimination. Spottswood also argued that Nixon’s policies were giving encouragement to white racists. Other speakers were also critical of the Nixon administration. Leon E. Panetta questioned the administration’s policies on school desegregation and NAACP Labor Department head Herbert Hill criticized the Philadelphia Plan. /pgrf/ Not surprisingly, the Nixon administration quickly responded to these speeches. This edition includes a telegram to Roy Wilkins from Leonard Garment, special consultant to Nixon, defending Nixon’s policies. Garment argued that the Philadelphia Plan, family food assistance programs, and the naming of African Americans to policy-making positions were among some of the administration’s accomplishments. Garment also argued that Spottswood misrepresented Nixon’s policies in the areas of employment and school desegregation.--- NAACP archives
-- Hodgdon's secret garden ( talk) 01:29, 14 February 2012 (UTC)-- Hodgdon's secret garden ( talk) 02:03, 14 February 2012 (UTC)By midsummer a second wave of visitors arrived at Hashbury: journalists and social scientists, and then, of course, politicians like Illinois senator Charles Percey and presidential candidate George Romney--early suitors to the Youth Vote.--- Robert Draper, Rolling Stone Magazine: The Uncensored History (Doubleday, 1990)
-- Hodgdon's secret garden ( talk) 03:45, 14 February 2012 (UTC)I had a passing interest in national politics at that point in my life, so I did notice who the tourist in the tie and sport coat was,[...]George Romney.
Given that Life Magazine, the Networks and a long list of assorted mainstream media had recently discovered Haight-Ashbury, hippies and The Summer of Love, it was apparent that Romney was there out of curiosity, what we now call a fact finding mission. [...] Maybe he was courting the young peace vote? Doubtful. Many of us wouldn’t have been able to vote until we were 21 back then, many who could didn’t.
George Romney, while a classic waffler like his son, was a descent moderate Republican, something like a vanishing breed today. Romney would later champion affirmative action and housing desegregation as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. I’ve always been of the opinion that George Romney was actually interested in finding out what that new social moment growing across the nation was all about. Bear in mind, we’re talking America of the mid-60s. Extremists had assassinated the President, his brother who was running for president, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Public reaction, in most parts of the nation, tended toward shock and dismay. The resulting tenor in Washington and on the campaign trail was, by today’s standards, civil and restrained. George Romney seemed, at least to me at the time, to reflect some of that restraint and civility.
to be endorsed, by implication, by the encyclopedia, in my opinion. Should be credited, "According to--- ", instead. If this particular gaffe was universally agreed to be pivotal, then that could be stated--but, that's the thing, right? obviously such positive of language wouldn't be called for--so, clearly, Wikipedia shouldn't imply the same. (...After all, candidates' popularity peaks and troughs according to whose name is in the news and what is said about them that resonates or the opposite of resonates and according to whether people feel comfortable telling pollsters they like a certain candidate within one particular moment of time, which aggregate of sentiment the pollster tries to catch by the snapshot of his survey.)
I've read some analyses of the campaign but don't feel energetic enough at the moment to proffer language or assemble sources so I'm just posting this thought on the page for the time being and fellow editors [sic wrt the plural there] can take it for what it's worth. (On the whole, the article is really well researched and written, btw. And even on this matter, my suggestion would just be toward what I would consider a refinement, 'tis all.) Cheers (as britons say)!-- Hodgdon's secret garden ( talk) 04:55, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
From
this piece I've gleaned the names of
Thomas Mellon Evans,
Charles Green (financier) (c. 1909–1980),
Art Landa,
Leopold D. Silberstein,
Louis E. Wolfson, and
Robert R. Young and I'll try to find out what that era's sharks um vultures no... marauders were called. '~) <--that's a wink!--
Hodgdon's secret garden (
talk) 05:11, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Somebody quantified them (per genealogical researcher Wm. Reitwiesner) as
37.5% Scotland
12.5% Colonial-Yankee
25% England
25% German.
Fwiw.-- Hodgdon's secret garden ( talk) 20:40, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
My edit: Romney worked for McDonald's founder Ray Kroc and received a card allowing him free meals at McDonald's for life. Ref is http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/mitt-romney-dad-had-card-giving-him-free-202154090.html
Some guy named Wasted didn't want it. I am not going to argue on this one because I don't care about Romney's dad. By posting this, someone may possibly violently defend the deletion from the article. However, I will not refute it. I am merely posting the edit here.
I request that there be a discussion ONLY if there is violent consensus for it (which there won't be). If there isn't a strong force for inclusion, NO need to violently oppose it. Auchansa ( talk) 02:56, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
The inclusion of information regarding George Romney's tax return filings for his Presidential bid were intended to further a political agenda. These lines should be deleted as they read as DNC campaign talking points and not as objective information. [07:17, August 28, 2012 50.136.78.177]
The fact that this piece of information was added to this article recently and it reflects almost exactly the argument that the Obama re-election campaign puts forth should not be ignored. This item should be deleted. The article that this information links to (Vanity Fair August 2012) is a hit-piece against Mitt Romney. I suppose that is sheer coincidence. [17:37, September 2, 2012 173.14.144.25]
Can someone add in a cpsection explaining how many years of welfare relief the Romneys received, having arrived as refugees from Mexico. There must be federal records? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.177.109.114 ( talk) 23:29, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
When searched on Google the right side section on George Romney incorrectly says that he was a polygamist. When you actually read the article it make it clear that its his grandfather that was a polygamist. I do not know how to edit the screen seen on google. Can anyone help?
Alma Mills — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.108.136.253 ( talk) 15:17, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
[4]-- Hodgdon's secret garden ( talk) 00:49, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
My knowledge of G.W. Romney is limited, but reading this article, I don't see how the word "struggled" is justified in the first section of the article when speaking of their life during the Great Depression. He seemed to be employed as a lobbyist in Washington, and not exactly struggling. I have to argue it's not a neutral word. 173.190.150.172 ( talk) 02:50, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
The 1930 census attests that George Romney's principal job in Washington DC was as secretary to one of the Utah senators. How does this jive with the lobbyist projection? Genehisthome ( talk) 20:39, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
How could he be president if he was born outside of the U.S.? Isn't this necessary to be able to be elected? 85.179.36.154 ( talk) 18:56, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
When I first saw this page listed, I assumed a vandal had made it. I didn't realize that George Romney's middle initial was "W"! LOL! The Wookieepedian ( talk) 03:57, 12 November 2012 (UTC)