While America wrestled with Vietnam, when Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy were shot, young Mormon missionary Mitt Romney was knocking on doors in Bordeaux and Paris. What do the French have to say about that?
“Le candidat à l’investiture républicaine pour l’élection présidentielle américaine a été missionnaire mormon en France entre 1966 et 1968. Un passé parfois encombrant alors que les médias attisent les rivalités entre prétendants pour entretenir le suspense.”
Read it in English here:
“Mitt Romney, The French Years,” Philippe Bernard, Le Monde via Worldcrunch
Willard Mitt Romney, LDS Missionary, in France (AFP photo via Time Magazine)
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