The Real Romney (48 page)
Authors: Michael Kranish,Scott Helman
111 And he was frugal to the core: Romney family videos, provided to
The Boston Globe
in 2007.
111 “I sometimes thought”: Interview with Joseph O’Donnell, 2011.
111 “His strategy”: Interview with John Wright.
112 “Mitt,” said Kem Gardner: Interview with Kem Gardner, 2007.
112 “Compared to my dad”: Interview with Tagg Romney.
112 “Mitt was always working”: Interview with Helen Claire Sievers, 2011.
112 “He opened it”: Interview with Grant Bennett.
112 John Wright remembered: Interview with John Wright.
112 There were stretches: Interview with Mitt Romney.
113 “To us, he was just Dad”: Interview with Tagg Romney.
113 Mormon lineages: Interviews with Helen Claire Sievers and Grant Bennett.
113 Mormon congregations: Interviews with Helen Claire Sievers and Ken Hutchins, 2011.
113 In another departure: Peggy Fletcher Stack, “Mitt and His Faith: Remembering When Candidate Romney Was Bishop Romney,”
The Salt Lake Tribune
, January 11, 2008.
113 Their selection is carefully vetted: Interview with Ken Hutchins.
114 “It really is quite a tremendous”: Interview with Tony Kimball, 2011.
114 Mitt Romney first took on: Interview with Grant Bennett.
114 close to four thousand members: Interviews with Grant Bennett and Ken Hutchins.
114 His leadership in the church: Interview with Philip Barlow, 2011.
114 Up to then, church practice reflected: Peggy Fletcher Stack, “ ‘Black Curse’ Is Problematic LDS Legacy,”
The Salt Lake Tribune
, June 6, 1998.
114 “one of the most emotional”: Scot Lehigh and Frank Phillips, “Romney Hits Kennedy on Faith Issue,”
The Boston Globe
, September 28, 1994.
114 “I heard it”:
Meet the Press
, NBC, December 16, 2007.
114 But though the church: Peggy Fletcher Stack, “Exiles in Zion,”
The Salt Lake Tribune
, August 16, 2003.
115 But a dichotomy exists: Lisa Wangsness, “GOP Rivals Have Different Takes on Mormon Faith,”
The Boston Globe
, August 15, 2011.
115 The Boston area: Interview with Tony Kimball.
116 In the early-morning darkness: Janet Peterson, “Belmont’s Blessing in Disguise,”
Ensign
, April 1987.
116 And the blaze: Interview with Philip Barlow.
116 “I don’t know when”: Peterson, “Belmont’s Blessing in Disguise.”
116 Some locals objected: Mark Miller, “Nearly Built Mormon Church Hit by a Suspicious Blaze in Belmont,”
The Boston Globe
, August 2, 1984; Peterson, “Belmont’s Blessing in Disguise.”
116 The church urgently needed: Peterson, “Belmont’s Blessing in Disguise.”
116 Others had started a small consulting firm: Carol Pearson, “Two Celebrations: A Beginning—and an Ending,”
The Boston Globe
, June 6, 1986.
117 A few years earlier: Peterson: “Belmont’s Blessing in Disguise”; Frank Phillips and Don Aucoin, “Romney Quiet on Religious Beliefs,”
The Boston Globe
, May 22, 1994.
117 “Some people in Belmont”: Peterson, “Belmont’s Blessing in Disguise.”
117 Then something unexpected happened: Interview with Grant Bennett; Peterson, “Belmont’s Blessing in Disguise.”
117 “One of the things”: Interview with Connie Eddington, 2011.
118 “There are still”: Interview with Grant Bennett.
118 nearly three thousand: Peterson, “Belmont’s Blessing in Disguise.”
118 cartoon characters: David D. Kirkpatrick, “Romney, Searching and Earnest, Set His Path in ’60s,”
The New York Times
, November 15, 2007.
118 “I was a little surprised”: Interview with Philip Barlow.
119 like a duty: Interview with Ken Hutchins.
119 Romney’s church colleagues said: Stack, “Mitt and His Faith: Remembering When Candidate Romney was Bishop Romney.”
119 “He was reasonable”: Interview with Philip Barlow.
119 “His leadership has been”: Interview with Douglas Anderson.
119 “He let the people”: Interview with Ken Hutchins.
119 He put it: Interview with Philip Barlow.
119 “Next thing I know”: Interview with David Gillette, 2011.
119 One Saturday: Interview with Grant Bennett.
120 weren’t getting paid back: Interview with Helen Claire Sievers.
120 Romney has also upheld his obligation: E-mail from Eric Fehrnstrom, September 22, 2011.
120 On Super Bowl Sunday 1989: Interview with Douglas Anderson.
121 “Search diligently”: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
Doctrine and Covenants
, Section 90, Verse 24.
121 Outside on the steps: Interview with Douglas Anderson.
121 Romney helped lead: Interview with Joseph O’Donnell.
122 On one occasion: Interview with Grant Bennett.
122 In the spring of 1993: Interview with Helen Claire Sievers.
122 In the end: Stack, “Mitt and His Faith: Remembering When Candidate Romney was Bishop Romney”; interview with Helen Claire Sievers.
123 Tony Kimball said: Interview with Tony Kimball.
123 She felt it was about time: Interview with Helen Claire Sievers.
123 Ann Romney was not considered: Interview with member, 2011.
123 Mitt Romney showed flexibility: Interview with Tony Kimball.
123 “They feel needed”: Julie A. Dockstader, “Enriching Theirs and Others’ Lives,” February 8, 1992, http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/22302/Enriching-theirs-and-others-lives.html.
124 Peggie Hayes had joined: Interview with Peggie Hayes, 2011.
125 the church encourages adoption: “Adoption,” http://lds.org/study/topics/adoption?lang=eng.
125 Romney would later deny: Frank Phillips and Scot Lehigh, “Single Mother Tells of the Advice Romney Gave as Mormon Counselor,”
The Boston Globe
, August 26, 1994.
126 In the fall of 1990: Anonymous, “Unheard,”
Exponent II
15, no. 4 (1990): 5.
126 Church leaders have said: “Abortion,” http://lds.org/study/topics/abortion?lang=eng.
126 One day in the hospital: Jacquelynn Boyle, “A Positive Spirit Wins,”
Detroit Free Press
, October 26, 1995.
126 Romney would later contend: Scot Lehigh and Frank Phillips, “Romney Admits Advice Against Abortion,”
The Boston Globe
, October 20, 1994.
127 One woman: Interview with Judy Dushku, 2011.
128 The world map: Don L. Brugger, “Climate for Change,”
Ensign
, September 1993.
128 living in the suburbs: Ibid.
128 “It has been a great challenge”: Sheridan R. Sheffield, “Boston: Gospel Rolls Forward in One of Nation’s Oldest Cities,” September 28, 1991, www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/20681/Boston-Gospel-rolls-forward-in-one-of-nations-oldest-cities.html.
128 Romney and other Mormon officials: Brugger, “Climate for Change.”
128 Missionaries worked: Sheffield, “Boston: Gospel Rolls Forward in One of Nation’s Oldest Cities.”
128 “Love those people”: Interview with Keith Knighton, 2011.
128 David Gillette: Interview with David Gillette.
129 he was also able: Interview with Tony Kimball.
129 regaling missionaries: Interview with David Gillette.
129 “You feel humbled”: Sheffield, “Boston: Gospel Rolls Forward in One of Nation’s Oldest Cities.”
129 “To understand my faith”: Hewitt,
A Mormon in the White House?
, 96.
Chapter 6: The Moneymaker
130 “I remember him”: Interview with Bill Bain, 2007.
131 “This guy is going to be”: Ibid.
133 “light or flippant manner”: Interview with Mitt Romney, 2007.
133 “So,” Bain explained: Interview with Bill Bain.
133 “I left a steady job”: Romney announcement speech in Stratham, N.H., June 2, 2011.
134 If he took a briefcase home: Interview with Mitt Romney.
134 “wallow in the data”: Mitt Romney, appearance at National Review Institute conference, Washington, D.C., January 27, 2007.
134 a decade younger: Interviews with Bain Capital partners, 2011.
135 “no sense”: Robert Gay, speech, “Within and Beyond Ourselves: The Role of Conscience in Modern Business,” delivered at Brigham Young University, April 26, 2002.
135 The most thorough analysis: Alex Brown, “Special Opportunities Fund: Investing in Funds Managed by Bain Capital,” Deutsche Bank, 2000.
136 “expressed to me”: Interview with Harry Strachan, 2011.
136 “We investigated”: Mitchell Zuckoff and Ben Bradlee, Jr., “Romney’s Business Record Gives Larger Picture,”
The Boston Globe
, August 8, 1994.
137 “He was troubled”: Interview with Coleman Andrews, 2007.
137 “punch him in the nose”: Robert Gavin and Sacha Pfeiffer, “Study, Sweat, and Profit; Performance at Bain Capital Burnished Image, Fueled Critics,”
The Boston Globe
, June 26, 2007; interview with Robert White, 2007.
137 “I always wondered”: Interview with Bain partner, 2011.
138 “Mitt was struggling”: Gavin and Pfeiffer, “Study, Sweat, and Profit; Performance at Bain Capital Burnished Image, Fueled Critics.”
138 Key ran shuttle routes: Interview with Geoffrey Rehnert, 2011.
138 Another early deal: Interview with Robert White, 2011.
138 Holson Burnes: Interview with Geoffrey Rehnert, 2011.
139 “Look,” Stemberg told Romney: Interviews with Thomas Stemberg, 2007 and 2011.
139 But after that, Romney took the lead: Ibid.
139 In all, it invested about $2.5 million: Gavin and Pfeiffer, “Study, Sweat, and Profit; Performance at Bain Capital Burnished Image, Fueled Critics.”
140 At the initial public offering: Staples IPO prospectus, April 1989.
140 “a classic ‘category killer’ ”: Steven Flax, “Perils of the Paper Clip Trade,”
The New York Times
, June 11, 1989.
140 “helped to create tens of thousands”: Interview with Mitt Romney,
On the Record
, CNN, September 6, 2011.
140 “That’s why I’m always”: Zuckoff and Bradlee, “Romney’s Business Record Gives Larger Picture.”