"Meanwhile, Nixon got the world's attention when, in the middle of a patriotic stemwinder in a rural town, he said that 'if in November this war is not over, I say that the American people will be justified in electing new leadership, and I pledge to you that new leadership will end the war and win the peace in the Pacific.' He simply told Americans what they wanted to hear: not that Vietnam was an unmanageable mess, but that under a President Nixon, Vietnam would be over.
"A limping Romney dropped out two weeks before the New Hampshire balloting. Overnight, he had transformed himself from national messiah to national laughingstock, a ruined man. Not to put too fine a point on it, but: Can you imagine what it would be like to watch that happen to your dad?"
Rick Perlstein in the Los Angeles Times traces the political rise and fall of Mitt Romney's father, George.
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