we may have battled fiercely, but it s only because we love this country deeply and we care so strongly about its future. from george to lenore to their son mitt, the romney family has chose tone give back to americans through public service. that is their legacy that we honor and applaud tonight. [cheering] word also that governor romney spoke by phone with the president to congratulate him on the victory. then the former g.o.p. challenger graciously accepted defeat before a crowd of his own supporters, that were gathered outside his campaign headquarters in boston. i have just called president obama to congratulate him on his victory, his supporters and his campaign also deserve congratulations. i wish all of them well. but particularly the president, the first lady and their daughters. this is a time of great challenges for america.
whether you pounded the pavement or picked up the phone. whether you held an obama sign or a romney sign, you made your voice heard. and you made a difference. i just spoke with governor romney, and i congratulated him and paul ryan on a hard fought campaign. fiercely but it s only because we love this and we care so strongly about its future. from george to lenore to their son mitt the romney family has chosen to give back through american service, and that s the we honor and applaud tonight.
i don t believe the animal exists anymore. by that, politically, it meant that they had somewhat conservative fiscal policies, but they were socially liberal. but george romney s political career imploded in 1967 during his run for the white house as a moderate republican. that s when he told a tv interviewer that his early support of the vietnam war was because he was brainwashed by u.s. military and diplomats during a trip to vietnam. well, you know, when i came back from vietnam, i just had the greatest brainwashing that anybody can get. by the generals? when you go over to vietnam, not only the generals but by the diplomatic corps over there. mitt romney s own road to this presidential nomination begins in 1947. that s when he was born to george and his wife lenore. lenore had signed a contract with mgm but gave up her fledgling movie career to be a
i was 15. and it taught me a lot about how people make their decisions on matters of politics. oh, god of light and universal truth from middle school on, romney attends the cranbrook school. it s an all boy s prep school in bloomfield hills, michigan. one of his classmates is sidney barthwell, the only african american in romney s class. cranbrook at the time was all male. i think it was about 430 students. seventh grade through 12th grade which was called first forum through the sixth forum. it was modeled after the english boarding school. it is also at cranbrook that mitt romney meets ann lois davies. his future wife. mrs. romney went to kingswood, which was the accompanying girls school for cranbrook. it was a fairly tight community. fairly hermetically sealed.
had only a thin tissue unquote of connection to his faith of mormonism. but missions serve two purposes, helping convert others while also deepening the faith of the young missionaries themselves. important roles would be what missionary work does for the young men and young women who serve missions. that is, it s maybe one of the most effective tools for building leadership in the church and helping to broaden the scope of young people. in france, a young mitt romney has little success converting the french. but his mission leaves him with a lasting impression. one day as he s driving the mission s president and wife, their car is hit head-on by a reckless driver. the police officer that arrived at the scene found us in a very serious accident, and i was unconscious and he wrote in my passport, he is dead. that made it to the papers in michigan that george romney s son had been killed in an automobile accident. so my dad called sergeant