When was romney born

Citizenship for foreign-born children of U. George Romney didn't make it far enough into the campaign for it to pose a problem, but that's likely to change, Spiro says. Several members of Congress - mostly Republicans - have attempted to cement this practice into a bill. Former Sen. Don Nickles introduced the Natural Born Citizen Act in to define the term, natural-born citizen, to include people who derived citizenship at birth from a U.

Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, went a step further, introducing the Equal Right to Govern Amendment in July to allow immigrants who had been naturalized for at least 20 years to run for president. All rights reserved. At the end of August '67, in a taped interview with a Detroit radio talk show host, Romney made one of the greatest gaffes in American political history when he said, "When I came back from Vietnam, I'd just had the greatest brainwashing that anybody can get.

It got a huge play in the media, which portrayed him as a bumbling buffoon. Republican and Democratic politicians alike commented that Romney must be weak-minded if he was able to be brainwashed. Senator Eugene McCarthy , an anti-war candidate whose strong second place finish in the New Hampshire primary would knock LBJ out of the running, said that in Romney's case, "a light rinse would have been sufficient.

He began to campaign in New Hampshire, which held its primary on March 12th. Returning to Vietnam in December , he made speeches that anticipated Nixon's Vietnamization policy of turning over the war to South Vietnamese troops while winding down U.

His poll numbers remained poor, with Nixon being the overwhelming favorite in New Hampshire a fortnight out from the primary. Romney's dismal showing led Nelson Rockefeller , the liberal Republican governor of New York who had been a supporter, to announce that while he still supported Romney, he would be open to a draft.

Rocky had lost the nomination to Goldwater, whose candidacy the equally liberal Romney, who was a staunch supporter of civil rights, had bitterly opposed. Rocky's decision to forgo was one reason Romney had gotten into the race.

Rockefeller's announcement, setting him up as a heavy-weight alternative to Nixon and incumbent President Johnson who was still in the race , was national news and effectively doomed Romney's candidacy.

Romney blamed Rockefeller's entry into the race as the major factor that derailed his bid for the presidency. He quit the race two weeks out from the New Hampshire primary.

Humphrey in November. President Nixon appointed Romney his Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, a position he held through Nixon's first term and one for which he was well suited. After leaving the Nixon Administration in January , Romney began a life of public service. He was a prominent member of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, becoming a top official of both the Michigan and national churches. George Romney died on July 26, , a little less than three weeks after his 88th birthday.

Were it not for that uprising and the years of war that followed, Mitt Romney might have been born in Mexico, and might be living there today raising apples and peaches, as many of his cousins do. Many English-speaking families fled, never to return, including that of George Romney, then a boy of 5.

Senate in Michigan in I wondered. But Hatch disabused me of my fears. Most of the worst violence in the region ended three years back, he told me. Hatch would like to get the word out to his old U. The Europeans, however, have kept coming, including a group from the Czech Republic that came to see local landmarks related to the history of Geronimo, the Apache fighter.

The enraged Geronimo then launched what would become a year guerrilla campaign against the authorities on both sides of the border.

I saw the house where George Romney was born in The old two-story, American colonial-style brick structure was sold by Romney family members in the early s. Since remodeled, it now has a Mexican colonial-style stone facade. There were many homes of brick and stone, some with the occasional Victorian flourish.

Ora was recently granted U. Navy submarine and represented Mexico in basketball at the Olympics in Rome. I first glimpsed the town as we descended a curving country road and entered a valley of orchards and swaying grasses. The practice ended after a LDS edict that polygamists would be excommunicated.

But lore has it that the Lord quickly provided: An earthquake triggered the return of an abundant flow. Still, a stroll through the town is a pleasant experience. On a gorgeous day of early spring, quiet filled the neighborhoods, and I could hear water flowing alongside most of the streets, inside three-foot-wide channels that irrigate peach and apple orchards and vegetable gardens amid small, well-kept brick homes. Hatch remembered bouncing on it as a boy. This must be a great place to raise kids, I thought, a feeling that was confirmed later that evening when a local family invited me to a community potluck in the home of Lester Johnson.

It was a Monday night, a time set aside, according to Mormon tradition, for family gatherings. Before diving into assorted casseroles and enchilada dishes, we all bowed our heads in prayer.