1250083974 (N) by Ann Romney

Author:Ann Romney [Romney, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
ISBN: 9781250083999
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Six

SEVERAL TIMES in the months leading up to the Opening Ceremonies, Mitt and I had paused to take a deep breath, look at each other and wonder, what are we going to do next? For the first time in our life we had no plans. After the Olympics ended, we could go anywhere and do anything we might choose. We didn’t have to be anywhere, we didn’t have to worry about getting the kids to school, and we didn’t have to go to meetings or fulfill responsibilities. We were people who had spent our entire lives following schedules, racing to fulfill endless obligations, and suddenly we were going to have a life with absolutely nothing planned.

We were financially secure; with the exception of Craig, all our boys were on their own; and Mitt didn’t have a business to run.

Neither of us was very good at doing nothing. We’re the kind of people who are happiest when we have to complain about being too busy. After spending years worrying if I even had a future, and then being given at least the possibility of a productive one, I certainly didn’t intend to waste it. I needed to be involved in life. And Mitt could never be content watching life pass by. He’s a problem solver, that’s what he does, and I knew he would be lost if there were no problems to be solved. For some people, that type of life might sound ideal, but it didn’t fit us.

Mitt’s success in turning around the Olympics had attracted the attention of political professionals. Some people in Utah had asked him to consider running for governor of that state, but Utah wasn’t our home, and it already had plenty of conservative talent. Kerry Healey, the chairperson of the Massachusetts Republican Party, quietly flew to Salt Lake to ask him to consider a run for governor. The then-governor of Massachusetts faced dim prospects for reelection.

There is a saying among people who have spent time in politics: if you have politics in your blood, get a vaccination! Mitt had politics in his blood. Many people remember that his father, George Romney, had been a very popular three-term governor of Michigan and a leading candidate for the presidency. It wasn’t so much that he enjoyed politics, but he believed that being an elected official was a very good way of helping people. Fewer people remember that Mitt’s mother also ran for political office. Lenore Romney was certainly a memorable woman. During George’s presidential campaign, a reporter asked her to comment on the old saying “Behind every great man there is a great woman.” She didn’t hesitate, replying, “I think that behind every great man there is a very surprised mother-in-law!” Lenore Romney won Michigan’s Republican Senate primary in 1970 for the right to run against the popular incumbent, Philip Hart. Hart was so popular, in fact, that the Senate named its third office building in his honor. There was little chance she would beat him; in

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