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  • Ann Romney on recovering from MS, carrying the olympic torch in 2002

    07/29/2012 7:49:18 PM PDT · by GodAndCountryFirst · 21 replies
    State-Controlled CNN ^ | July 27th, 2012
    Broadcasting out of his native England, this evening Piers Morgan welcomes Mitt and Ann Romney for a candid and revealing conversation that comes alongside the 2012 Summer Olympic Games from London. A decade since the Romneys helped host the 2002 Olympics in their home state of Utah, the "Piers Morgan Tonight" host walks the couple down memory lane: "There was a very poignant moment, when you were asked to allow someone who was your hero, to hold the torch. And you chose your wife," reviewed Morgan. "Tell me about that."
  • Olympics Spotlights Mitt Romney's Turnaround Skill

    06/01/2012 10:13:24 PM PDT · by Innovative · 170 replies
    Newsmax ^ | Feb 1, 2012 | Ronald Kessler
    Mitt Romney often is described as a turnaround artist. No better example of that is how he turned a failure into a success with the 2002 Winter Olympics. Romney "can see into a situation very quickly," Bullock says. "He's very facile with numbers. He's got that raw intellect which lays a great foundation. And then he's combined that with a very significant layering upon layer of education and business experience that has given him now the base from which he can make pretty sound judgments pretty quickly." "Mitt is a cheapskate," says Bullock, who is now managing director of Sorenson...
  • Group targets Mitt’s role in ’02 Olympics

    07/16/2011 6:37:01 AM PDT · by Diogenesis · 6 replies
    Boston Herald ^ | Saturday, July 16, 2011 | Dave Wedge
    Group targets Mitt’s role in ’02 Olympics "A group of Utah business people who sat on the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic committee have formed a “truth squad” aimed at criticizing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for trumpeting his role in rescuing the troubled games ... "... the group’s members — many of whom helped select Romney to chair the Games — are preparing a full-on assault." “Mitt Romney tends to spin it always to make himself some kind of a knight on a white horse. That is not the way a lot of Utahans who were involved in the...