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George Romney ran for the 1968 Republican Party nomination in the 1968 United States presidential election. Romney was the Governor of Michigan and automaker who focused his campaign on the issues of fiscal responsibility, welfare reform, and the Vietnam War. [1] If elected, he would have been the first Latter-day Saint ("Mormon") president.
May 18, 2012 · When Mitt Romney declared his candidacy for the presidency for the first time, in 2007, it was in Michigan, a state in which he’d never had a public role, in front of a Rambler, the compact...
Dec 2, 2011 · George Romney. By 1968, Nixon was fully prepared for a comeback. But Michigan Gov. George Romney — father of Mitt Romney, of course former CEO of American Motors — was the media darling at the...
Dec 18, 2007 · George W. Romney made his fortune turning around the American Motors Corporation before becoming governor of Michigan, then staged a bid for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination, only to...
For much of his final two decades, Romney had been out of the political eye, [92] and but he re-emerged to the general public when he campaigned for his son, Mitt Romney, during the younger Romney's bid to unseat Senator Ted Kennedy in the 1994 U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts.
Romney remained active in politics, and he also published the book No Apology: The Case for American Greatness (2010). In June 2011 he announced his decision to make a second run for the presidency. Romney began the campaign as the perceived front-runner for the Republican nomination.
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May 29, 2018 · Romney helped set up the merger between the Hudson Motor Car Company and Nash-Kelvinator, which created the American Motors Corporation. The deal was finalized in the spring of 1954. Romney was named president, general manager, and chairman of the board of American Motors on October 12, 1954.
