Town & Country, in 1967 edition, envisioned White House for ‘eligible’ Mitt Romney
DES MOINES – Town & Country once pegged Mitt Romney for “weekends at the White House,’’ but not because of his 2008 or current presidential campaigns.
Instead, in its June 1967 issue, the magazine branded him a “serious chap’’ and swooned over his height and “dark hair and eyes’’ as it put him on its list of “America’s most eligible young men.’’
At the time, 20-year-old Willard Mitt Romney was the son of a presidential candidate, then-Michigan Governor George Romney.
In Town & Country’s January 2012 issue, now on newstands, Ash Carter writes, “Readers besotted with the ‘serious chap’ with a ‘possible political future’ could not have known that Romney had already gotten engaged to his prom date, Ann Davies. Alas, Readers, Mitt was never, strictly speaking, eligible.’’
Carter notes the couple married in 1969 and went on to have five sons (and 16 grandchildren) over the ensuing 42 years.
But the 1967 write-up made it clear Ann Romney got quite a catch. And it forecast a “possible political future.’’
Parts of it are below:
ROMNEY, WILLARD MITT (20)
Tall (6’ 2’’), dark hair and eyes. Called “Mitt’’ by friends. Serious chap: Mormon missionary work in France, majoring Political Science Stanford, likes nature study.
WHAT TO EXPECT: Distinguished in-laws, possible political future, water sports, many concerts. Public Affairs on major scale, possibly weekends at the White House.
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