Interesting clip of George Romney admitting that he was "brainwashed" by the U.S. military and diplomatic service in Vietnam:
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Two things:
1. Romney seems quite convinced that he was psychologically programmed to support the war while in Vietnam
2. He appears sincere and conflicted about this incedent, something that his milqtoast son is not capeable of.
From Time Magazine:
Republicans: The Brainwashed Candidate
Friday, Sept. 15, 1967
Many Americans of late have altered their views about the complex and bewildering war in Viet Nam without feeling obliged to offer elaborate justifications. Politicians, too, change their minds, and the good ones do so with such grace that people hardly notice, or such logic that everyone understands. Last week Michigan's Governor George Romney offered so inept an explanation of his shifting views on Viet Nam that it could end his presidential ambitions.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... z23dOIIa9f
Wikipeda:
Romney was a candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in 1968. While initially a front-runner, he proved an ineffective campaigner, and fell behind Richard Nixon in polls. Following a mid-1967 remark that his earlier support for the Vietnam War had been due to a "brainwashing" by U.S. military and diplomatic officials in Vietnam, his campaign faltered even more, and he withdrew from the contest in early 1968. Once elected president, Nixon appointed Romney Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Romney's ambitious plans for housing production increases for the poor, and for open housing to desegregate suburbs, were modestly successful but often thwarted by Nixon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Romney
