The Real Romney (61 page)

Union Leader
[N.H.], 307

United Paperworkers International Union, 178

United States:

antipolygamy laws in, 37, 40, 42–43, 46

draft resisters in, 70

Mormon relief fund in, 48

Selective Service (draft), 59–60, 61–62

shifting social currents in, 114–16

social unrest (1960s), 4, 69–70, 77, 90

in Vietnam,
see
Vietnam War

University of California—Berkeley, 56

University of Massachusetts, 245

U.S. Olympic Committee, 204, 209

Utah:

Army vs. Mormons in, 35

draft deferments in, 61, 62

Mitt Romney’s ties to, 205, 228

Mormon hierarchy in, 205

polygamy made illegal in, 37

Romney family in St. George, 39–41

Sports Advisory Council, 215

and Winter Olympics (2002), 204–6, 207–9, 212, 214

Utah League of Cities and Towns, 217

Utahns for Responsible Public Spending, 218

Vallee, James, 246–47

Van Faasen, William C., 269, 270

venture capital investments, 136–37, 141

Vermont, civil unions in, 230

Vietnam War:

antiwar protests, 53–54, 55–57, 58–61, 63, 70, 76, 77, 93

and the draft, 59–60, 61–62, 70

and France, 65

George Romney’s views on, 6, 57, 59, 73–76

Mitt Romney’s views on, 76, 89

official statements about, 57

student deferments during, 60, 61–62

“Vietnamization” in, 76

Waldheim, Kurt, 91

Wall Street
(movie), 144

Wall Street Journal, The,
160

Walsh, David, 12

Weinroth, Seth, 171, 172, 173–74

Welch, Thomas K., 208, 214–16

Weld, William F., 170, 181, 182–83, 240, 241, 258

Wheeler, Max, 214, 215

White, Robert, 134, 137, 149, 179, 227, 251, 310

Whitney, Richard, 261, 262

Wiedis, Richard, 216

Wilcox, Reed, 155

Williams, Gordon, 114

Winslow, Daniel B., 248

Winter Olympics (2002),
see
Olympic Games

Wisecup, Trent, 251

Wolpow, Marc, 147, 163

women:

and abortion, 114, 115, 126–27, 183–84, 185, 224, 228–30, 234

and adoption, 124–25

and endowments, 127–28

Exponent II, 122–23, 126, 127, 185

and gender equality, 114–15, 116, 122–28, 186

political campaigns aimed toward, 181, 192, 234

and single parenthood, 115, 124–25

Wood, David L., 80, 82

Woodruff, Wilford, 46

Woodstock Festival, 70

Woolson, Eric, 299

Wright, David, 103

Wright, John, 102–3, 104, 105, 111, 198, 203

Wright, Laraine, 103–4

Yellow Pages of Italy, 159, 160–61

Young, Brigham, 36–37, 38, 39, 40, 209, 303

Zon, Leonard, 254

Zwick, Spencer, 219

Photo Section

ABOVE LEFT:
Miles Park Romney, Mitt’s great-grandfather, was born in the Mormon base of Nauvoo, Illinois, moved to Utah, and then followed the church’s instruction to undertake multiple moves and establish a polygamous colony in Mexico.
ABOVE RIGHT:
Hannah Hood Hill Romney, Mitt’s great-grandmother, was the first of five wives taken by Miles. She kept the polygamous family together as Miles fled U.S. marshals and went to Mexico, where she eventually joined him.

(Special Collections Dept., J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah)

Gaskell Romney, Mitt’s grandfather, fled a revolution in Mexico and moved the family, including five-year-old George Romney, Mitt’s father, to the United States.

(Special Collections Dept., J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah)

Mitt Romney
(right)
idolized his father, George, who served as governor of Michigan and unsuccessfully sought the presidency.

(Courtesy of Romney family)

Mitt hopped behind the wheel of his dad’s Rambler. His father, as chairman of American Motors Corporation, championed smaller cars.

(Courtesy of Romney family)

As a nineteen-year-old student at Stanford University in May 1966, Romney picketed antiwar protesters who were holding a sit-in at the office of the university president.

(George Romney Collection, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan)

Romney was nearly killed in June 1968 when the car he was driving through France as a Mormon missionary
(at left)
was hit head-on by an oncoming vehicle. Leola Anderson, the wife of the French mission president, died from her injuries. The fateful accident quickly eroded Romney’s sense of youthful invulnerability.

(Courtesy of Richard B. Anderson)

High school sweethearts Mitt Romney and Ann Davies were married in a two-part ceremony in March 1969, the first at her parents’ home and the second in the Mormon temple in Salt Lake City. Ann’s parents, because they were not Mormon, were forbidden to witness the temple ceremony.

(Courtesy of Romney family)

Armed with degrees from an elite graduate program at Harvard University, Romney helped build his private equity firm, Bain Capital, into a powerhouse.

(Boston Globe/David L.Ryan)

The Romneys arrived in the Boston area in 1971 with a one-year-old son, Taggart. Over the next decade, Mitt and Ann had four more boys.
From left, with their parents
:
Tagg, Ben, Matt, Craig, and Josh. Mitt said that being a part of that household “was so much fun, because of the jokes, the laughter, bathroom humor, the physical, you know, fisticuffs, wrestling, games.”

(Courtesy of Romney family)