Mitt Romney's father, George Romney, paid an effective tax rate of nearly 37% in 1967.
If the strategy worked, Mitt Romney and George W. Bush could both take credit for reforming health care by using market-based ideas and without raising taxes.
Third, because Republicans think they have a winning issue in painting Obama as a tax hiker and Democrats think they have a winning issue in painting Romney as George W. Bush 2.0.
However, the Obama re-election team often points to Romney's father, the late George Romney, who released 12 years of tax returns when he ran for president in 1968.
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George Romney sought to live with what he needed, and use the rest to help others.
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So were Prescott Bush, William Scranton, Charles Percy, John Lindsay, Mark Hatfield, Elliot Richardson, and George Romney.
George Romney, Mitt's father, made solid things for 23 years, running the American Motors Corporation for eight of them.
He is set to surpass his father, George Romney, a former Michigan governor who ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination in 1968.
George Romney was much more generous with his wealth than Mitt has been.
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Both were successful businessmen, then governors and finally presidential candidates (although George Romney ended his run before the first Republican primary in 1968).
After restructuring and managing American Motors Corporation, his father George Romney became Governor of Michigan during most of the sixties, and ran for President.
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George Romney, the governor of Michigan, a wishy-washy moderate, was obviously unsuitable, to say nothing of the Republican archliberal Nelson Rockefeller, of New York.
George Romney -- wrong guy. (Laughter.) Governor Romney -- he was a good governor. (Laughter.) Governor Romney is a -- he's a patriotic American.
His father, George Romney, was a rich, albeit self-made, car executive.
Carney referred to the decision by George Romney, the former Michigan governor who released 12 years of his tax returns when running for president in 1968.
His father, George Romney, was a Governor of the state of Michigan, and for several months was believed to be the front-running Republican candidate for President in 1968.
Despite becoming a wealthy and successful CEO who could easily afford to hire help, George Romney instilled this same work ethic in his kids by requiring them to mow the lawn, shovel snow, rake leaves, weed the garden, and clean the house.
Mitt Romney, 60, was born and raised near Detroit, where his father, George W. Romney, was the chairman of American Motors, the governor of Michigan and, in 1968, a presidential contender.
But the last point I want to make is this: There are some things where Governor Romney is different from George Bush.
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and former President George W. Bush, as well as celebrities such as Angelina Jolie, George Clooney, Mark Zuckerberg and Lady Gaga.
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Recall when George Stephanopoulos hammered Romney about hypothetical (bogus) birth control issues or, more currently, when everyone hammered him about his taxes?
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Romney supporters covered a wide spectrum, from Jesse Havard, a 25-year-old Army veteran who recently returned from his third tour in Afghanistan, to Susan Tynan, a 62-year-old retired nurse from Sarasota who grew up in Michigan and has fond memories of Mr. Romney's father, George, from his days as the state's governor.
For instance, it is coastal Republican governors such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Pataki and Mitt Romney who are leading the way on placing mandatory curbs on carbon emissions from cars and power plants.
Another example: Dave Robertson, president of Koch Industries, sent a letter to 30, 000 employees at subsidiary George-Pacific, endorsing Mitt Romney and several other conservative candidates, and spelling out how employees might be hurt by rising gas prices and high inflation.
At one point, Romney suggested that lawyers could sort out whether President George Bush would need approval from Congress to take military action against Iran.
If it were not for Mitt Romney, with assistance from the Heritage Foundation and George W. Bush, it is extremely unlikely that Obama would have passed his universal health-care law last year.
The Republican-penned friend of the court brief, which is designed to influence conservative justices on the high court, includes a number of top officials from the George W. Bush administration, Mitt Romney's former campaign manager and former GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman.
It was an approach entirely consistent with the way he campaigned for office in 2002 and also consistent with the Romney family political philosophy established by his father, George, when he was an effective and popular governor of Michigan in the 1960s.
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