Witness Backs Up Romney’s MLK Assertion
From Politico:
Shirley Basore, 72, says she was sitting in the hairdresser’s chair in wealthy Grosse Pointe, Mich., back in 1963 when a rumpus started and she discovered that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and her governor, George Romney, were marching for civil rights — right past the window.
With the cape still around her neck, Basore went outside and joined the parade.
“They were hand in hand,” recalled Basore, a former high-school English teacher. “They led the march. We all swung our hands, and they held their hands up above everybody else’s.”
She remembered the late governor as “extremely handsome.”
Until this week, that was just a vivid memory for a sweet retiree who now lives in Pompano Beach, Fla.
But Basore’s memory became important this week when news accounts questioned the recollections of the late Michigan governor’s son, Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor.
As for whether Mitt Romney attended - it was in 1963; you know, 44 years ago. Some memories dim, others get altered by later events. As for me, if Mitt Romney says he was there, then that is good enough for me unless someone comes up with absolute, stand-up-in-court proof that he was elsewhere that day. And if someone finds such proof? Then it still wouldn’t matter too much - I’m 43 and I have memories of 30 years or so ago…and while I’m sure in my mind that this, that or the other event happened a certain way, I can’t be 100% about anything that long ago absent other documentary evidence to completely confirm it all.
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