How Romney's father arrived in the US from Mexico
Thousands of American Mormons were welcomed in El Paso, Texas as they fled Mexico by train in 1912.
The train arrived to El Paso, Texas at midnight on a hot summer’s night. Hundreds of refugees — women and children — had come, fleeing the threat of violence during the Mexican Revolution. The year was 1912 and one of the passengers was George Romney, late governor of Michigan and father of future presidential candidate Mitt Romney. George was 5 years old.
Romney Is Attacked by His Father's Longtime Aide - NYTimes.com
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.comA longtime aide to George W. Romney issued a harshly worded critique of Mitt Romney, accusing him of shifting political positions in “erratic and startling ways” and failing to live up to the distinguished record of his father, the former governor of Michigan. Walter De Vries, who worked for the senior Mr. Romney throughout the 1960s, wrote that Mitt Romney’s bid for the White House was “a far cry from the kind of campaign and conduct, as a public servant, I saw during the seven years I worked in George Romney’s campaigns and served him as governor.” “While it seems that Mitt would say and do anything to close a deal – or an election,” he wrote, “George Romney’s strength as a politician and public officeholder was his ability and determination to develop and hold consistent policy positions over his life.”
