Lawrence J. Leigh: A tale of two Utah senators
There are uncanny parallels in the lives of Utah’s two U.S. senators, Mitt Romney and Mike Lee.Both had famous fathers. Mitt is George Romney’s son. George, the Republican governor of Michigan in the 1960s, stumbled in 1968 as a presidential candidate by criticizing the Vietnam War too soon and advocating forcefully for civil rights.Mike is Rex Lee’s son. Rex purportedly resigned as solicitor general of the United States under President Ronald Reagan as criticism grew that he w
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