[SpringheelJack]

The book's statement is incorrect on both the date and George Romney's participation. From the Boston Phoenix:

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Fehrnstrom had originally told the Phoenix that the two men marched together in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, either in June 1963 or March 1968, a claim the Phoenix called into question earlier today. An additional source, William LeFevre of the Reuther Library at Wayne State University, who is in charge of the papers of the Grosse Pointe Civil Liberties Association, has since confirmed to the Phoenix that George Romney was not at the 1968 event, and that King was not at the 1963 event.

Fehrnstrom now says that the event in question was King’s “Freedom March” in Detroit on June 23, 1963.

He provides one reference, a 1972 book about Detroit, which mentions that Michigan’s then-governor George Romney “was among the prominent whites marching with Reverend King” in the Freedom March (which the book erroneously says took place on July 23).

However, numerous contemporaneous and historical accounts say that Romney did not participate in the Detroit Freedom March, because it was held on the Sabbath. The New York Times, for example, wrote the next day that “Gov. George Romney, who is Mormon and does not make public appearances on Sundays, issued a special proclamation.”

http://thephoenix.com/Article.aspx?id=53200&page=2

[pepperhead]

That rebuttal didn’t take long.

[restornu]

Well there are three other books that also say July 23, 1963 I find that amazing all 4 would say the same date!

Sure leaves a gapping hole!

[Ol' Sparky]

So what? Romney wasn't there to see his daddy march. That's why he had use Clintonesque verbal gymnastics to claim he figuratively saw his father marching with King.

That alone shows that Romney is habitual liar in the Clinton mold and one of the reasons he is the candidate most likely to be destroyed in a landslide.