Mitt Romney, who is near the same age as George Romney was when he confronted Nixon, often cites his father’s influence during interviews with reporters, including during his time as governor of ...

By 1970, Richard Nixon badly wanted to be rid of his Housing and Urban Development secretary, a liberal Republican and former governor of Michigan named George Romney.

And George Romney, the popular governor of Michigan, and a fresher face than Nixon, spoke his own doom when he said that on a trip to Vietnam he had been "brainwashed" by U.S. generals and diplomats.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — In 1963, an explosive year in the quest for civil rights, George Romney appeared unannounced in the mostly white suburb of Grosse Pointe and marched to the front of an anti ...

Within hours of Romney’s rocketing exit, Nixon and Rockefeller were adjusting to the new rules of play. Nixon, the sole surviving announced candidate of stature, had been cruelly deprived of an ...

On July 10, 2012, George Romney’s son Mitt stood before the NAACP’s annual convention as the soon-to-be Republican nominee for an office his father had coveted in vain: president.

One person who is posthumously benefitting from the upcoming debates between President Obama and Mitt Romney is Richard Nixon. Footage of Nixon debating John F. Kennedy in 1960 is popping up ...

A ghost from 1968 haunts the campaign of Mitt Romney—and no, it’s not the memory of his father, the late Michigan Gov. George Romney, who stumbled as a leading GOP contender 43 years ago. For ...

The shift in the party began during Richard Nixon's 1968 law-and-order campaign, ... Republicans like George Romney who supported civil rights wouldn’t recognize Trump’s GOP.