Coppins depicts Ann Romney as the pivotal influence in her husband’s life; he is always trying to win and preserve her approval. A close second is his father, George Romney, the governor of Michigan, Republican presidential candidate and Housing and Urban Development secretary in the Nixon administration. The controversy surrounding his use of that term finally derailed George Romney’s presidential aspirations. “The one question Romney would struggle to answer — even a decade later — was whether he had been true to himself in his pursuit of the presidency,” Coppins writes. Did it allow Romney to make a statement rather than a difference, in that his isolated vote could not produce Trump’s conviction?

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Persons: Ann Romney, George Romney, Nixon, “ He’s, ” Coppins, Barry Goldwater, George Floyd, Mitt, Richard Nixon peddled, Romney, —, ”, George, Coppins, “ It’s, “ Romney, he’d, Trump, marginalize, Paul Ryan, ” Romney Organizations: Republican, Housing, Urban, Trump, Senate, Republican Party Locations: Michigan, Vietnam