The earnest one is rolling up his sleeves and discovering the country he wants to govern.

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Rolling up his sleeves, Hartmann did a brilliant job of selling off peripheral and underperforming businesses and streamlining and chopping costs out of the core businesses he wanted to keep.

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In these stories told by third parties, one glimpses an extraordinarily honorable and caring Mitt Romney, a man who takes charge and takes responsibility, a man who takes command and knows how to accomplish by delegating but who also takes pleasure in rolling up his sleeves and doing himself what needs to get done.

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