• Brian Lamb : When you father thought of running for president in ’64, and then actually ran for a while in ’68, how old were you in those years and what did you experience during that time?

• Governor Mitt Romney: Well, I had the fun of working in all three of my dad’s gubernatorial campaigns, my mother’s Senate campaign. And in 1964 I was with Dad at the Republican Convention at the Cow Palace where Barry Goldwater was nominated and watched that very closely, listened to dad.

In ’68 I was 19 or 20 years old, and so I was aware of what was happening. I went off and served my church about that time in France and so I was not actively participating in the presidential campaign, but nonetheless got an interesting perspective because my dad would write lengthy letter about what was happening, what his concerns were, progress, lack of progress. And it was an extraordinary learning experience for all of us.

He called it, by the way, his ”mini-campaign.” Like a miniskirt, he said it was short and revealing.