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.
83 A mission president: Ibid.
84 But when Nelson arrived: Ibid.
84 “You had this shock experience”: Interview with Dane McBride, 2007.
84 He resisted suggestions: Interview with Bruce Robinson.
84 “His resilience”: Interviews with Joel McKinnon.
85 But he wanted to keep: Interview with Mitt Romney.
85 Duane Anderson returned: Richard Anderson, writing in Leola Anderson’s journal.
85 he did lose one small battle: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~timbaloo/SuchALife/pages/Ch3/8Miss/8Miss25c.htm.
85 He personally brought few new members: Interview with Mitt Romney.
86 “I wasn’t there for”: Henry B. Eyring, “Waiting upon the Lord,” speech at Brigham Young University, September 30, 1990.
86 “He came to respond”: Interview with Mitt Romney.
86 “This made me very painfully aware”: Ibid.
86 “I was frightened”: Ibid.
86 Romney apparently had: Interviews with Mitt Romney and Bill Ryan, 2007.
86 On his way home: Interview with Mitt Romney.
87 “Is this what’s in store”: Ibid.
87 “That was terrifying”: Ibid.
87 “He became really, really distraught”: Interviews with Dane McBride, 2007 and 2011.
88 Ann’s roommate: Interviews with Mitt Romney, Cindy Davies, and
Kim Cameron, 2007; interviews with Dane McBride.
88 “Gosh, this feels”: Interview with Mitt Romney.
88 “I think Lenore had a hard time”: Interview with Cindy Davies.
88 “accomplish things of significance”: Interview with Mitt Romney.
89 In the spring of 1969: Laurena Pringle, “Ann Davies, Mitt Romney Married,” Detroit Free Press, March 1969; Associated Press, “Couple Wed in Civil Ceremony,” March 22, 1969; “Mitt Romney Marries Ann Davies,” The New York Times, March 22, 1969.
89 named for a friend: Tagg Romney, “Campaigning for Dad,” online chat with The Washington Post, December 20, 2007.
89 The new parents were thrilled: Interview with Dane McBride; Associated Press, “Couple Wed in Civil Ceremony”; “Mitt Romney Marries Ann Davies,” The New York Times.
89 Romney, despite having soured: David D. Kirkpatrick, “Romney, Searching and Earnest, Set His Path in ’60s,” The New York Times, November 15, 2007.
90 He was invited: Interview with Dane McBride.
90 “highest honors”: E-mail from Michael Smart, BYU communications, August 26, 2011; Mitt Romney, Turnaround: Crisis, Leadership, and the Olympic Games (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2004), 13.
90 “I pray”: Ben Bradlee, Jr., “Romney Seeks New Chapter in Success,” The Boston Globe, August 7, 1994.
91 “He looks up”: Interview with Howard Serkin, 2007.
92 “When we all got there”: Interview with Janice Stewart, 2007.
92 “We viewed ourselves”: Interview with Howard Brownstein, 2007.
92 Stephen Breyer: Hugh Hewitt, A Mormon in the White House? 10 Things Every American Should Know About Mitt Romney (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2007), 46.
93 “There was nothing jaded”: Interview with Garret Rasmussen, 2007.
93 “Most of us dressed”: Interview with William Neff, 2007.
93 The snub: John Ehrlichman, Witness to Power: The Nixon Years (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982), 104.
94 “We’ve got to”: John Herbers, “Romney Making His Greatest Impact Outside Government by Challenging U.S. Institutions,” The New York Times, May 15, 1969.
94 Romney declined: Christopher Bonastia, Knocking on the Door: The Federal Government’s Attempt to Desegregate the Suburbs (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006), 108.
94 “It was a stunning blow”: Lenore Romney, letter to John Ehrlichman, www.boston.com/news/daily/27/lenore_letter.pdf.
94 Arriving in Wilkes-Barre: Louise Cook, “Rebuilding After Agnes’ Floodwaters Continues,” Associated Press, August 10, 1972.
95 Romney let loose: George Romney–Richard Nixon meeting, August 11, 1972, Nixon tapes.
95 Then, in a tart resignation letter: www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=3709.
95 He briefly considered: Bob Bernick, Jr., “Bennett Makes Some Changes; Senator Plans to Seek Third Term Despite ’92 Vow,” Deseret News, August 29, 2001.
96 Mitt and Ann had: Bradlee, “Romney Seeks New Chapter in Success.”
96 “He didn’t mind”: Interview with Howard Serkin.
96 One guest: Interview with Howard Brownstein.
96 “He mentioned it once”: Interview with Mark Mazo, 2007.
96 “You got the feeling”: Interview with Howard Brownstein.
97 “He was an outstanding recruit”: Interview with Charles Faris, 2007.
97 was admitted to practice: Michigan Board of Law Examiners records.
97 ”That’s where my friends are”: Jo-Ann Barnas, “Romney Gives His All to Games; Michigan Native Saves Scandalous Olympics,” Detroit Free Press, February 14, 2011.
98 “At BCG, analysis was king”: Interview with Lonnie Smith, 2007.
98 “He worked”: Interview with Charles Faris.
98 “For me and everybody there”: Interview with Lonnie Smith.
Chapter 5: Family Man, Church Man
99 It was shaping up: Interview with Mark and Sheryl Nixon, 2011.
100 Shortly after leaving: Tom Moroney, “Aftermath,” The Boston Globe Magazine, December 8, 1996.
101 The Romneys have long cited: Ben Bradlee, Jr., “Romney Seeks New Chapter in Success,” The Boston Globe, August 7, 1994.
101 Over the next decade: E-mail from Eric Fehrnstrom, August 25, 2011.
101 Like many Mormons: Bradlee, “Romney Seeks New Chapter in Success”; interview with Tagg Romney, 2007.
102 “For us”: Interview with Mitt Romney, 2007.
102 Tuesday evenings: Bradlee, “Romney Seeks New Chapter in Success”; e-mail from Eric Fehrnstrom, September 22, 2011.
102 Before high school: Interview with Tagg Romney.
102 She had left: “Ann’s Biography,” www.mittromney.com/Ann-Romney/Biography, accessed September 2, 2011 (no longer online); e-mail from Eric Fehrnstrom, August 28, 2011.
102 She would become active: “Ann’s Biography”; Bella English, “Where Mitt Leads, Ann Romney Follows,” The Boston Globe, October 29, 2002.
102 Her husband’s preferred term: Ann Romney, “Chief Family Officer,” http://fivebrothers.mittromney.com, June 22, 2007 (no longer online).
102 “So far as the family”: Interview with Douglas Anderson, 2011.
102 Eagle Scout badges: Hugh Hewitt, A Mormon in the White House? 10 Things Every American Should Know About Mitt Romney (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2007), 79.
102 ”It’s one which is challenging”: Bradlee, “Romney Seeks New Chapter in Success.”
102 Once, Ann forgot: Interview with John Wright, 2011.
103 a skill she had absorbed: Ann Romney, “Memories of the Salt Lake Olympics,” http://fivebrothers.mittromney.com, September 20, 2007 (no longer online).
103 even ran a small cooking school: Ann Romney, “The Sunshine State,” http://fivebrothers.mittromney.com, November 23, 2007 (no longer online).
103 One of the most popular: Ibid.
103 “I was willing”: Meredith Bryan, “Free Fatherhood Advice from Mitt Romney,” GQ, June 2007, 194.
103 “I’ve broken almost every bone”: Hewitt, A Mormon in the White House?, 84.
103 One winter day: Interview with John Wright.
104 In time, each of the boys: Interview with Tagg Romney.
104 “They were very impressive young men”: Interview with Philip Barlow, 2011.
104 “Mitt tried to teach”: Interview with John Wright.
104 Indeed, all five sons: This Week, ABC, February 18, 2007.
104 Mitt Romney said: Bryan, “Free Fatherhood Advice from Mitt Romney,” 194.
104 “Growing up”: Interview with Mitt Romney.
104 Tagg said his father: Interview with Tagg Romney.
105 “We’ve tried to civilize”: TV spot, Romney for Governor, 2002.
105 For fifteen years: Barnstable County, Massachusetts Registry of Deeds, http://barnstabledeeds.org; interview with Elaine Price, 2011.
105 Bennett was up: Interview with Grant Bennett, 2011.
105 learned to water-ski: Interview with John Wright.
105 In June 1981: Frank Phillips, “GOP Hopeful Arrested in 1981,” The Boston Globe, May 5, 1994; interview with John Wright.
106 Tagg said some: Interview with Tagg Romney.
106 Matt, Josh, and Craig: E-mail from Eric Fehrnstrom, September 22, 2011.
106 “Overnight,” Tagg said: Interview with Tagg Romney.
107 One night: Ibid.
107 To Mitt, the special one: Ibid.
107 On Mother’s Day: Jose Antonio Vargas, “Romney Brothers Dish on Dad,” The Washington Post, June 9, 2007.
107 Mitt is driven first by reason: Interview with Tagg Romney.
107 But she has remained: Interview with John Wright.
108 “Mitt’s not going”: Interview with Jane Romney, 2006.
108 “I know there are things”: Interview with Tagg Romney.
108 Mitt imposed strict rules: Ibid.
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