title: John Paul Jones (musician)

texts: <mask>, better known by his stage name <mask>, is an English musician, composer and record producer who was the bassist and keyboardist for the rock band Led Zeppelin. He was a session musician before forming the band with Jimmy Page. <mask> developed a solo career after the death of <mask> in 1980. He has collaborated with musicians in a variety of genres. On 3 January 1946, <mask> was born in Sidcup, Kent, England. He learned to play the piano from his father, who was a pianist for big bands in the 1940s and 1950s. The family used to tour around England as a comedy act because his mother was in the music business.His influences ranged from the blues of Big Bill Broonzy to the classical piano of Sergei Rachmaninoff. Baldwin was sent to boarding school when he was young. He studied music at Christ's College in London. Baldwin became choirmaster and organist at a local church at the age of 14 and bought his first bass guitar, a Dallas Tuxedo solid body electric followed by multiple basses which he part exchanged until he finally bought his 1962 Fender Jazz Bass. <mask> cites the fluid playing of Chicago musician Phil Upchurch on his You Can't Sit Down album as his inspiration to take up the instrument. Baldwin joined his first band at the age of 15. He played bass for Jett Blacks, a band that included guitarist <mask>.He was hired by Jet Harris and Tony Meehan of The Shadows for a two-year stint in 1962. Harris and Meehan had just had a Number 1 hit with "Diamonds", a song that <mask>' bandmate-to-be Jimmy Page had played. Baldwin's collaboration with the Shadows nearly prevented the future formation of Led Zeppelin, when the parties engaged in talks about the possibility of Baldwin replacing their bassist Brian Locking, who left the band in October 1963, but <mask> was ultimately chosen to fill the position. Baldwin began studio session work with Decca Records in 1964. He played on hundreds of recordings. He expanded his studio work by playing keyboards, arranging and undertaking general studio direction, which resulted in his services coming under a lot of demand. He worked with many artists including the Rolling Stones on Their Satanic Majesties Request.<mask> also played bass for her Talk of the Town series of performances. Mickie Most used his services as an arranger for many of his own projects after arranging and playing on "Sunshine Superman". <mask> was hired by Most to arrange the music for Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter. <mask> said years later that he couldn't remember three-quarters of the sessions he was on in the studio. Baldwin adopted the stage name <mask> <mask> while he was a session player. The name was suggested to him by a friend who had seen a poster for <mask> <mask>. He released his first solo recording as <mask> <mask>, "Baja", written by Lee Hazlewood and produced by Oldham, as a single on Pye Records in April 1964.As a session musician, <mask> completed two and three sessions a day, six and seven days a week. He was burning out by 1968 due to the heavy workload: "I was arranging 50 or 60 things a month and it was starting to kill me." During his time as a session player, <mask> often crossed paths with guitarist Jimmy Page. In 1966 Page joined The Yardbirds and in 1967 <mask> contributed to the band's Little Games album. <mask> told Page that he wanted to be part of any projects the guitarist might be planning. After The Yardbirds dissolved, Page and Dreja were left to complete previously booked Yardbirds dates in Europe. Dreja left before a new band could be formed.At the suggestion of his wife, <mask> asked Page about the vacant position, and the guitarist eagerly invited <mask> to collaborate. Robert Plant and <mask> formed a quartet. Initially dubbed the "New Yardbirds", the band became known as Led Zeppelin. The bass lines in "Ramble On", "The Lemon Song", and "Black Dog" were all contributed to by <mask>. <mask> shared an appreciation for funk and soul rhythmic grooves which strengthened and enhanced their musical affinity. In an interview he gave to Global Bass magazine, <mask> remarked on this common musical interest: After retiring his Fender Jazz Bass from touring in 1975, <mask> switched to using custom-designed Alembic basses for touring. In a 2010 interview, he mentioned that he still had the Jazz Bass that he used in the studio.Led Zeppelin became more than just a hard rock band because of <mask>' keyboard skills. The keyboard highlights include the delicate "The Rain Song", the funky "Trampled Under Foot", and the eastern scales of "Kashmir". In live performances, <mask>' keyboard showpiece was "No Quarter", often lasting for up to half-an-hour and sometimes including snatches of "Amazing Grace" and "Concierto de Aranjuez". An unusual triple-necked acoustic instrument consisting of a six and a twelve string guitar and a mandolin was one of <mask>' contributions to the group. <mask> used bass pedals to amplify the band's sound. Sandy Denny, who had sung on the studio version of "The Battle of Evermore," was replaced by <mask> on the band's 1977 tour of the United States. <mask> was seen as the most reserved member of the group because of his reputation for off-stage excess.<mask> claimed that he had as much fun on the road as his bandmates but was more discreet about it, stating "I did more drugs than I care to remember." I did it quietly. <mask> <mask> was the wisest guy in Led Zeppelin, according to an employee of Atlantic Records in France. Why? He didn't get caught in an embarrassing situation. <mask> said in an interview that fame with Led Zeppelin was not something that he ever became preoccupied with: Following exhausting tours and extended periods of time away from his family, <mask> was beginning to show signs of disillusionment. Peter Grant, the band's manager, talked him back into the band after he considered quitting to spend more time with his family.He joked that he was interested in becoming the choirmaster of the cathedral. "Royal Orleans" is said to be about an experience <mask> had on tour in the United States. The song is about a person who takes a drag queen to his hotel room and then falls asleep with a joint of marijuana in his hand and the room is on fire. "Royal Orleans" was the name of a hotel where the members of Led Zeppelin would stay when they visited New Orleans, because not as many people asked for autographs there. In an interview he gave to the magazine in 2007, <mask> said that other work with the band did not stop his session work. He returned to the studio in 1969 to play bass guitar on the A Way of Life album. <mask> was the first person to arrange and produce Comin' Atcha.He played bass on the opening track of the RoyHarper album. Wings' Rockestra, Back to the Egg, and <mask>'s drummer are just a few of the contributions. The death of <mask> led to the dissolution of Led Zeppelin. At the time of <mask>'s death, <mask> had just moved to the area to be near his family. I was completely out of everything after the split. I didn't miss it. Diamanda Gals, R.E.M., Jars of Clay, Heart, Ben E. King, Peter Gabriel, Foo Fighters, and La Fura dels Baus collaborated with <mask>.He was involved in the soundtrack of the film Give My Regards to Broad Street. Jimmy Page appeared on two tracks in the film Scream for Help, which was written and directed by Michael Winner. <mask> sings two of the songs. He recorded and toured with Diamanda Gals on her 1994 album. He set up his own studio and was involved in his daughter's career. <mask> joined Page and Plant for Live Aid in 1985. The Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary concert saw the re-forming of the former members.The event was closed by Page, Plant and <mask> with <mask>'s son. The R.E.M. was arranged by <mask> in 1992. Automatic for the People is an album. The band Heart released a live acoustic album in 1995. <mask> produced it, and featured him playing several instruments. In 1995 Andrew Lawrence-King's Harp Consort released a set of three Spanish language songs in 17th-century style of <mask>'s own composition, accompanied by baroque instruments. His debut solo album, Zooma, was released in September 1999 on Robert Fripp's DGM label and followed up in 2001.He played with Nick Beggs and Terl Bryant on the tours. He toured with the members of the band Nickel Creek, as well as with the front man of the band Toad the Wet Sprocket. On Foo Fighters' album In Your Honor, <mask> plays on two tracks. There are two songs on the acoustic disc, "Another Round" and "Miracle". The second greatest thing to happen to me in my life was the guest appearance of <mask>. The Mission's album Children, The Datsuns' second album Outta Sight, Outta Mind, and Uncle Earl's Waterloo, Tennessee album of Old-time music were all produced by him. He performed the song "Gigolo Aunt" at a Pink Floyd tribute in London in May 2007, along with Ruby Wright.The Super-Jam is the festival's annual tradition of bringing together famous, world-class musicians to jam on stage for a few hours. During the song "Look at Miss Ohio" and a cover of the <mask> song "Jackson", <mask> appeared and played the mandolin. He was on the set of BenHarper and the Innocent Criminals where they played a cover of "Dazed and Confused". Gov't Mule's first set was closed by <mask>, who played parts of "Moby Dick" and "Livin Maid" on bass and keyboards. <mask> produced an album for the all-female bluegrass group Uncle Earl. <mask> and the Duhks played Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" at a festival in North Carolina in 2007. <mask> was part of a tribute to Ahmet Ertegun that took place at London's O2 Arena on December 10, 2007.Sara Watkins' debut solo album was produced by <mask>. In late 2004, <mask> toured with Watkins, GlenPhillips, and the rest of Nickel Creek in a collaboration called Mutual Admiration Society. <mask> conducted the orchestral part of the Foo Fighters song "The Pretender" at the 2008Grammy Awards. The Foo Fighters had a concert at Wembley Stadium on June 7, 2008, with <mask> and Page in attendance. Merce Cunningham's Nearly 90 was performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music by Sonic Youth and Takehisa Kosugi. He was part of a group called Them Crooked Vultures with Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age. The trio played their first show together on August 9, 2009, at the Metro in Chicago, and their first album was released on November 17, 2009.Mark- Anthony Turnage's opera Anna Nicole was performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in London, in February and March 2011. He played alongside Seasick Steve at the festivals. Brian May of Queen, Ian Paice of Deep Purple, and Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden performed at the Sunflower Jam charity concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London. <mask> toured the UK with a band called Supersilent. <mask> performed at Cecil Sharp House in London in December of 2012 as 'Biscotti'. <mask> played bass on "Down on the Farm" from Seasick Steve's new album Hubcap Music on the Later... with Jools Holland show. <mask> and Seasick Steve performed at a concert in Camden, London.<mask> was introduced as a member of the "best rock band ever" by Seasick Steve. <mask> and Traoré opened the Pyramid Stage at the festival. Seasick Steve was on the West Holt's stage at the same festival. <mask> joined a seven-day tour of the Southeast US, playing with the Dave Rawlings Machine. Led Zeppelin's " Going to California" was included in the show in Atlanta. In the fall of 2014, <mask> toured with the Dave Rawlings Machine. On 5 and 6 September 2015, <mask>, along with Queen drummer Roger Taylor, joined Foo Fighters on stage in Milton Keynes to perform a cover of Queen's " Under Pressure".He composed three lute songs for the Amores pasados album, which was composed by <mask>, Anna Maria Friman, and Jacob Herringman. The band called the "Sons of Chipotle" was formed by <mask> and Anssi Karttunen. The Pit Inn in Tokyo, Japan hosted a pair of live concerts for the group in September of that year. The band's first scheduled U.S. date was canceled due to the COVID-19 outbreak. <mask> is considered to be one of the most influential and important bassists, keyboard players and arrangers in the history of rock music. There are many rock bassists who have been influenced by <mask>. Chris Dreja, the rhythm guitarist and bassist of The Yardbirds, has described him as the best bass player in Europe.<mask> has been ranked among the best rock bassists of all time. He was named the best bassist in 1977. He was ranked third in the "Bassist of the Millennium" readers' poll by Guitar magazine in 2000. In October 2010, <mask> was awarded a "Gold Badge Award" by The British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors for his outstanding contribution to Britain's music and entertainment industry. <mask> <mask> received a gold Badge for Led Zeppelin. There is a man named Gibson. He received the "Outstanding Contribution Award" at the Marshall Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards.Blabbermouth.net is a website. <mask> was ranked first on the "20 Most Underrated Bassists" list. <mask> married his wife in 1967, they reside in West London. They have three daughters. According to The Sunday Times Rich List, <mask>'s net worth was £40 million.

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title: Geydar Dzhemal

type: paraphrased

texts: The Russian Islamic public figure, activist, philosopher, poet, political and social activist was sometimes transliterated as Heydar Jamal. The founder and chairman of the Islamic Committee of Russia was also a member of the Presidium of the Russian Social Movement "Russian Islamic Heritage" and a member of the Popular Arab and Islamic Congress. He participated in the Dissenters' March. On 6 November 1947, <mask> was born in Moscow. His father is believed to be a descendant of Hulagu Khan. His mother was a well-known equestrian and horse trainer. He was raised by his maternal grandparents after his parents divorced.The director of the Maly Theatre and the First Deputy Minister of Culture of the Soviet Union were both the grandfathers of Dzhemal. After graduating from school in 1965, <mask> entered the Institute of Oriental Languages at Moscow State University, but was expelled a year later for "bourgeois nationalism". He met a Moscow State University graduate while working at the "Medicine" Publishing House. He was an editor at the "Medicine" and edited many books on Psychiatry. In the 1960s and 1970s, <mask> joined a number of bohemian underground groups. The All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature had secret collections that some members of these groups had access to. The works became popular among the intellectual strain of Russian neo-Nazism.In order to escape compulsory military service, the organisation was dissolved and <mask> was sent to a mental health institution. After Mameleev moved to the United States, a group of people met with a philosopher who later established the "Black Order". Both were members of the Pamyat society in the late 1980s, but were not allowed to practice their faith. He joined the underground organizations of the Caucasus and the Volga regions of Russia in the formation of an umbrella Islamic Revival Party that was active throughout the Soviet Union and whose leadership came from various Islamic traditions. The party claimed that the Soviet Union would be able to oppose the West if it had onlyTurks, Caucasians and Islamised Slavs. Davlat Usmon was one of the founding members of the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan. He became a deputy chairman of the Islamic Renaissance Party.He launched the Islamic Russian-language newspaper Al-Wadat in the same year. After the fall of the USSR, he became a Russian delegate at the Russian Center, a representative body within the party's central committee. During the Tajik Civil War of 1992, he was appointed as a political advisor to the Vice Prime Minister of the Islamic Democratic Coalition Government. He was a member of the permanent council of the Popular Arab and Islamic Conference. He was asked to run the Islamic Committee of Russia by Dr. Al-Turabi. He began to produce TV series and films about Islam and philosophy around this time. The Islamic Council became affiliated with the Union of Muslims of Russia in 1995.He worked with the Union of Patriotic and National Organisations of Russia to support Alexander Lebed's presidential campaign. As a member of the Central Council, Djemal was involved in the First Chechen War. The headquarters of Muslim organizations in Europe was established by him. The first meeting was held in December 1993. He maintained contact with the British Muslim Council, the Islamic Parliament of the United Kingdom, and the Sorbonne Friends of Islam Club. Djemal and Ahmad were acquainted in 1993. There were TV shows about Islamic issues in the early 1990s.The Russian channels Pervij and The First broadcasted Djemal's documentary, Islamic Republic of Iran, in 1994, which caused a political scandal in Russia. He lectured in South Africa in 1998. Djemal went to South Africa to teach a course on social anthropology and political philosophy at the University of Cape Town. He received a doctorate from the University of Cape Town. The idea of an anti-imperialist strategic alliance between Muslims and Orthodox Christianity was put forward in 1999. Djemal gave lectures, wrote and published articles on a wide range of topics and public commentaries on political and social events for 25 years. In 2010 he commented on the conflict.He was one of the first 34 people to sign an online anti-Vladimir Putin manifesto. The intellectual club was founded in 2011. On December 5, 2016 <mask> Djemal passed away. He was buried in the foothills of the TienShan in accordance with his will. His son, journalist, was killed along with film director and cameraman while filming a documentary about the activities of a Russian paramilitary organization in the Central African Republic. There is a debate about religion. The religious scholar and Islamic scholar Roman Silantyev pointed out that Jamal was a Jafarite.The head of the World Congress of Tatar Youth Ruslan Aysin stated that he was an opponent of division and that he was buried following Sunni Tradition. He insisted that the platform of Muslims was a platform of unification. His methodology was based on the idea that Muslims should come together. According to the Internet portal "Voice of Islam", <mask> Jamal has long been a Shiite, but in recent years has changed his mind about him. In the last years of Heydar's life, by the grace of Allah, he made a difficult turn for him in moral and intellectual respect - to his umma, what it is and what it was throughout its history. In the midst of Jihad in Sham that Shia and Shi'ism had become a force against Islam and umma, he made a decisive choice in favor of the latter. At a time when Heydar might have realized that his earthly path was running out, this choice was especially valuable.The following was announced on his official website. Many people have inquired about my belonging to one direction or another within Islam. Some people say they agree with you, but you are Shia. If you weren't Shia! To remove any questions that arise in the brothers, I declare the following: 1. I support all who follow the Quran and authentic Sunnah of the Prophet. 2.The complete and inseparable theological and political unity of all Muslims on the platform of jihad in the path of Allah is what I stand for. 3. I don't follow any of the Shiites. 4. I do not agree with pantheism and the Sufi Aqeedah based on the teachings of Muhammad ibn al-Arabi. 5. May Allah be pleased with the Rashidun, I do not curse them.6. There is a grain of truth, which will be demanded in the 73rd direction/sect, designed to carry out the complete victory of Muslims over Dajjal, because I believe that in all directions of Islam, created by sincere Muslims making efforts in the way of Allah, except for Political analysis has been characterized in many ways. Some people think it's an Islamic style of Marxism, while others think it's fundamentalist Islam. His informational outlets are called Tawd and Al-Wadat. In 1999, he tried to bridge the differences between Shiism and Sunnism by emphasizing the "inner spirit" of Shia Islam. There are links to works on the personal website for Geydar Dzhemal.

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title: Jessica Lynch

texts: <mask> is an American teacher, actress, and former United States Army soldier who served in the 2003 invasion of Iraq as a private first class. On March 23, 2003 she was serving as a unit supply specialist with the 507th Maintenance Company when her convoy was attacked by Iraqi troops and she was seriously injured. Her recovery by U.S. special operations forces on April 1, 2003 was the first successful rescue of an American prisoner of war since World War II and the first ever for a woman. <mask>'s capture and rescue in Iraq were incorrect. She testified in front of Congress that she had never fired her weapon and that she had been knocked unconscious when her vehicle crashed during the ambush. <mask> criticized the original stories that were reported about her combat experience. She stated that she wasn't the hero when asked about it.I don't want to take credit for something I didn't do. I'm a survivor. <mask> made her acting debut as Summer L. Gabriel in the film Virtuous. Her role was based on her experiences during the US-led invasion of Iraq. The second child and first daughter to Deidre <mask> and <mask>, Jr. were born in Palestine, West Virginia. Her older brother had to drop out of college because his family couldn't afford it. In the summer of 2000 <mask> was still in high school and the <mask> family was looking for a way to pay for their children's educations."He didn't lie to the kids, he said there was always the possibility of war in the future," her mother said. "But at that time it was before September 11, and there was no terrorism," <mask> recalls, "so we were like, 'that would never happen'." She became a unit supply specialist in the Quartermaster Corps at Fort Lee, Virginia, after completing Advanced Individual Training for her Military Occupational Specialty. On March 23, 2003 a convoy of the United States Army's 507th Maintenance Company and the 3rd Combat Support Battalion elements, led by a Humvee driven by Lori Piestewa, made a wrong turn and were ambushed. The convoy was supposed to detour around the town but instead turned into an ambush. The Iraqis didn't know which course the convoy would take so the ambush was unlikely to have been set up in advance. MilitaryGPS systems provide only grid references and not turn-by-turn navigation, unlike civilian equivalents.The area's maps don't have the detail needed to navigate through the streets. The convoy took more than one wrong turn. The convoy came under attack. <mask>'s vehicle was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade and crashed into the back of a tractor-trailer. <mask> was injured. <mask>, a supply clerk with the 507th Maintenance Company, was wounded and captured by Iraqi forces. She was listed as missing.The soldiers were killed in an ambush. Five other soldiers were rescued after being captured. <mask>'s best friend, who had a serious head wound, died in an Iraqi hospital. A video of some of the American prisoners of war, including Piestewa, was shown around the world. <mask> and Piestewa were found at an Iraqi hospital. <mask> was taken to a hospital after she was captured by the Iraqi army. Iraqi hospital staff, including doctors Harith Al-Houssona and Anmar Uday, said they protected <mask> from Iraqi military and government agents who were using the hospital as a base of military operations.An Iraqi told US forces that <mask> had been tortured and was still alive. Initially described as "Mohammed", the Iraqi was later identified as Mohammed Odeh al Rehaief. Mohammed and his family were granted refugee status by the United States because of Mohammed's role in <mask>'s rescue. Initial reports indicated that al Rehaief's wife was a nurse by the name of Iman in the hospital where <mask> was being held captive, and that while visiting his wife at the hospital, al Rehaief noticed that security was heightened and inquired as to why. The hospital personnel later confirmed that al Rehaief's wife was not a nurse at the hospital and that there was no nurse named Iman working there. According to al Rehaief, an Iraqi colonel slapped <mask> while he was in the hospital. "I knew I had to help her be saved", said al Rehaief.I decided to tell the Americans. <mask> was protected from Iraqi military personnel by hospital staff and was treated well throughout her stay at the hospital, according to doctors working at the hospital. <mask>'s own story says that she was treated well, with a nurse even singing to her. According to reports, on March 30, Al-Houssona tried to have <mask> delivered to the U.S. forces, but the Americans fired on the Iraqi ambulance carrying her. According to al Rehaief's version of the events leading up to <mask>'s rescue, he walked six miles to a US Marine checkpoint to inform American forces that he knew where <mask> was being held. After talking with the Marines, al Rehaief was sent back to the hospital to gather more information, which was used to plan <mask>'s rescue. Allegedly, al Rehaief returned to the checkpoint with five different maps of the hospital and details of the security layout, reaction plan, and shift changes.The US military knew of <mask>'s location from several people, one of which was al Rehaief. After al Rehaief came forward and confirmed <mask>'s location, officials with the Defense Intelligence Agency equipped and trained an unnamed person, possibly a Central Intelligence Agency agent, with a concealed video camera. The hospital was secretly videotaping entrances and a route to <mask>'s room on the day of the raid. Marines from 3rd Battalion 4th Marines, 2nd Battalion 8th Marines and 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines staged a diversionary attack on the hospital on April 1, 2003 An element from the Joint Special Operations Task Force 121 launched a nighttime raid on the hospital. According to certain accounts of doctors present during the raid, they were gathered into groups at gunpoint and treated as hostiles until they could be identified as hospital staff. Many military and Special Operations Forces experts have defended the tactics of the operators who led the raid, saying that they are trained to expect the worst and move quickly.The doctors stated that the Iraqi military had left the hospital the day before, and that no one in the hospital had offered any resistance to the American forces. One witness account claimed that the Iraqi military had fled a day before they raided the hospital, and that the entire event was staged, even going so far as to use blanks to create the appearance that they were firing. The use of blanks was disputed by weapons experts who pointed out that there was no sign of blank adapters on the weapons of those who appeared in the video of the raid. On April 2, 2003 the Pentagon released a five-minute video of the rescue and claimed that <mask> had stab and bullet wounds, and that she had been slapped while on her hospital bed. <mask>'s injuries were described by Iraqi doctors and nurses as a broken arm, a broken thigh, and a dislocated ankle. According to Al-Houssona, there was no sign of gunshot or stab wounds, and <mask>'s injuries were consistent with those that would be suffered in a car accident. The U.S. Army report leaked on July 10, 2003 confirmed Al-Houssona's account of events.<mask> had been raped during the first three hours of her captivity, according to US army medical reports. The biography, I Am A Soldier Too: The <mask> Story, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Bragg, describes <mask> as being sodomized during captivity, although the Iraqi doctors who rescued and treated her denied that they had found evidence of sexual assault. <mask> was taken to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany, where she was expected to recover from her injuries. Military medics kept her hydrated on the flight to Ramstein Air Base. Her family flew to Germany to be with her. <mask> had a big smile on her face when her parents showed up. <mask> had back surgery on April 3 to correct a vertebra that was putting pressure on her spine.She has undergone many surgeries to fix her broken bones. The bodies of 11 people were recovered at the same time as <mask>'s rescue. After forensic identification, eight were identified as fellow members of her company. posthumous purple hearts were given to all of them Their deaths are not clear. Four other supply-unit POWs were shown on Al Jazeera television. A number of dead soldiers from that unit were shown in the video.Friends of Mohammed, a group based in West Virginia, formed after learning of Mohammed Odeh al-Rehaief's role in <mask>'s rescue. On April 29, 2003 Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge announced that Mohammed Odeh al Rehaief, his wife and their daughter had been granted humanitarian asylum. Al Rehaief and his family were brought to the US at his request. "Because Each Life Is Precious" was published in October of 2003 for US $150,000. She was greeted by thousands of West Virginia residents when she returned home. <mask> and Contreras separated after she came back. On April 12, 2003 <mask> was flown to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., for specialized treatment.She had surgery to repair a bone in her foot. <mask> was overwhelmed with gifts and flowers from people she didn't know, so she asked the public to send cards. Her family wanted the public to donate money to charity. Three months after her injury, <mask> was released from the hospital. <mask> was given an honorable discharge. <mask> blamed the U.S. government for the controversy surrounding awards and decorations. The Pentagon disputed a report in the Washington Post that <mask> had fought back, and the first official report of <mask>'s actions during her capture released by the Pentagon weeks later said that she did not appear to have fought back against her abductors.The stories of her supposed heroics that day were spread by the news media, INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals After returning, <mask> began speaking to the public. The original story was reported by the Washington Post. "That wasn't me," she said when asked about her status. I don't want to take credit for something I didn't do. I'm a survivor. Despite the letters of support she received after her testimony before a House oversight committee, <mask> says that she still gets hate mail from Americans who accuse her of making up the heroic acts attributed to her.I didn't go down fighting after I was captured. So what? She says so. It was difficult to convince people that I didn't have to do that. I needed comfort even though I was injured. She didn't say she fought until she was wounded, but she said her weapon jammed immediately and she couldn't have done anything. In an interview with Diane Sawyer, <mask> claimed that he was used to symbolize the media and the Pentagon.It's not right. I don't know why they filmed the rescue mission. She stated that she did not shoot a round. I prayed to my knees. That's the last thing I remember. Critics have accused the media of bias in their coverage of <mask> and her fellow soldiers. Piestewa was killed and <mask> and Johnson were injured when they were attacked in the Iraq War.<mask>, a young, blonde, white woman, received far more media coverage than Johnson, a black woman and a single mother, and Piestewa, a Hopi woman from an impoverished background. <mask> testified before the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that the Pentagon had wrongly portrayed her as a "Rambo from the hills of West Virginia" when she never fired a shot. She noted for the record that her appearance was not politically motivated. She said that she attended West Virginia University on a full scholarship because of her military service. After completing her student-teacher training at the same elementary school she attended, she graduated with her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Elementary Education K6 on December 16, 2011. She joined the U.S. Army because she wanted to become a school teacher. On May 6, 2006, Allison Barker of the Associated Press reported that <mask>, who had completed her freshman year, avoided talking about her military service at school, despite wearing a brace on her left foot protecting nerve damage from her capture.It gives me the chance to blend in and not stick out, just like they do. <mask> said she wants to do something with children. I haven't found my way with everything I've been through. I want people to remember me as a soldier who went over there and did his job. Nothing special. I'm a country girl at heart. Kate Snow reported on August 24, 2006 that <mask> wrote a letter stating she would have a baby by the end of the year.According to Fox News, <mask> and Wes Robinson would have a baby in January. I was not sure if this could ever happen for me, learning to walk again and dealing with the internal injuries that I still deal with pale in comparison to the tremendous joy of carrying this child, she said. The first woman killed in the Iraq War and the first Native American woman killed on foreign soil was named Dakota Ann after her. <mask> made her living as a motivational speaker after working as a substitute teacher. She was affected by post-traumatic stress. <mask> is a 5th grade teacher in West Virginia. Saving <mask> is an NBC made-for-TV movie that was released in November of 2003Laura is portraying <mask>. The transcript, audio and video of <mask>'s opening statement to the House Oversight and Government can be found here. Military personnel from West Virginia and the United States Army personnel of the Iraq War are part of the Reform Committee.

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texts: The name is plcido. The major Native American Chief of the Tonkawa Indians was in Texas during the Spanish and Mexican rule, the Republic of Texas era, and the United States. The son of a Tonkawa Chief and a Comanche female captive/slave was born early in Texas. He became the greatest enemy of the Comanche in Texas because of his mother. The last major Chief of the Tonkawa Indians was known as Ha-shu-ka-na, or "Can't Kill Him". The Tonkawas helped the white Texas settlers against their enemies. During the Long expedition into Texas in 1819, Plcido became the leader of the Tonkawas.In battles with the Spanish army, warriors from several tribes, including <mask> and his Tonkawa, joined in. After Carita, a Tonkawa leader, died in 1823, the chiefs and elders elected Plcido as their leader. The Chief and Stephen Austin befriended each other. The Tonkawa supported the Texan forces in the Texas War for Independence. The Tonkawa felt secure in their central Texas home, near the Springs of the San Marcos River. The Texans would not have been in a position to intercept Buffalo Hump and the returning raiders except for the help of Plcido. The raiding party at Plum Creek was attacked by the Texas militia with the help of Chief Plcido and thirteen of his Tonkawa scouts.The last battle the Tonkawa and Texans fought was the Battle of Little Robe Creek. In 1856, Texas Governor Runnels promised to end the raids on the Kiowa and Comanche tribes if he were elected. When the 2nd United States Cavalry was transferred to Utah, he expressed astonishment and rage. The Ranger battalions were reduced after Texas' annexation by the United States. On January 27, 1858, Governor Runnels appointed John Salmon "Rip" Ford, a veteran Ranger of the Mexican–American War and frontier Indian fighter, as captain and commander of the Texas Ranger, Militia, and Allied Indian Forces, and ordered him to carry the battle. Ford was known as a ferocious and no-nonsense Indian fighter. He could not find his proclivity for ordering the wholesale slaughter of any Indian, man or woman in the history books.The reason for this was simple: the Comanche raids were brutal in their treatment of settlers. Ford was determined to meet brutality. Governor Runnels told Ford the necessity of action and energy. If you can, follow any trail that leads to hostile Indians and overtake them if you can. The Tonkawa were recruited by Ford on March 19, 1858, near the city of Fort Worth, Texas. The Tonkawa Indians, commanded by their "celebrated" chief, <mask>, are being hailed as a faithful and trusted friend of the whites. Ford didn't have enough men to launch a campaign into the Comancheria without the Tonkawa.Ford undertook a campaign with an equal number of Texas Rangers and Tonkawa Warriors against the Comanches. Ford and <mask> were determined to follow the Comanche and Kiowa up to their strongholds amid the hills of the Canadian river, and if possible, "kill their warriors, decimate their food supply, strike at their homes and families and generally destroy their ability to survive." Camp Runnells was established in 1858 near the town of Belknap. Governor Runnell ordered Ford to follow any and all trails of hostile and suspected hostile Indians, and to allow no interference from any source. The United States' Army and Indian agents might try to enforce federal treaties on the Indian territories in Oklahoma, according to the source. Ford's Rangers, accompanied by Tonkawa warriors, crossed the Red River into Indian Territory on April 15. The force advanced into the Indian Territories of Oklahoma.Ford led his men across the Red River into the Indian Territory, violating federal laws and numerous treaties, but later stated that his job was to find and fight Indians, not to learn geography. The battle took place on May 12, 1858. Ford and his force of Rangers and Tonkawa launched a dawn attack on a sleeping village. The Battle of Little Robe Creek consisted of three separate incidents over a single day. The sleeping village was attacked. Further up the Canadian River, there was a follow up attack on the village of Iron Jacket. The remainder of Iron Jacket's village was saved by the intervention of Peta Nocona with a third force of Comanche who arrived to engage Ford while all the villages along the Canadian made a swift response.A dozen Tonkawas were killed in single combat with the Comanches before the withdrawal. The Tonkawa was forbidden to accept anymore by Ford after he was enraged by the losses. Peta Nocona knew that his warriors were no match for the Rangers in an exchange of gunfire, and had no intention of engaging in such an exchange. He tried to lure the Rangers and Tonkawas into individual duals to delay the enemy so the villages upriver would be able to withdraw safely. He was successful in this. The Battle of Little Robe Creek was notable for the fact that the Texan forces invaded the United States against all federal law and numerous Indian Treaties, then attacked Indian villages without warning, and allowed their allied Indians, the Tonkawa, to eat some of the Comanche killed in battle. The Tonkawa were on the verge of extinction after Little Robe Creek.The settlers accused two Tonkawa warriors of killing a man, and Plcido fled, seeking refuge with other Indians. Robert Neighbors was the one who convinced the US military not to pursue the matter. Texas was becoming more dangerous for the Indian due to increased harassment by white settlers. Indian agent Neighbors convinced the United States to allow the displacement of all the Texas tribes, including Plcido and his Tonkawa, to a reservation in Indian Territory. When Confederate Indian agents arrived at the reservations, only the Tonkawa welcomed them, as <mask> saw the Confederacy as an extension of his beloved Republic of Texas. The Tonkawa's loyalty to the Texans was never forgotten by other Indians. Despite pleas from Placido to protect his people, the Tonkawa were not allowed to return to their reservation on the Brazos, and remained on a reservation in Oklahoma with the Delaware, Shawnee and Caddo tribes.The Tonkawas were attacked by warriors from these tribes on October 23, 1862. 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After the slaughter of much of their tribe, the survivors, led by Charlie, fled to Fort Belknap, Texas, and remained there until the end of the Civil War.Less than 15 families of Tonkawa remain in Oklahoma. There are references to the Battle of the Neches in the United States.

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texts: The junior United States senator from Utah is an American politician, lawyer and businessman who was born in 1947. He was the Republican Party's nominee for president of the United States in the 2012 election, but lost to Barack Obama. He spent two years in France as a Mormon missionary after being raised in Michigan by George and <mask>. He married Ann Davies in 1969 and they have five sons. <mask> was an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, serving as bishop of his ward and later as a stake president for an area covering Boston and many of its suburbs. He was involved in the political campaigns of his parents. <mask> received a bachelor's degree in English fromBYU in 1971 and a master's degree from Harvard in 1975.He joined Bain & Company in Boston in 1977 as a management consultant. He helped lead the company out of a financial crisis. Bain Capital became one of the largest private equity investment firms in the nation after co-founding it in 1984. <mask> was the Republican nominee in the 1994 United States Senate election in Massachusetts after stepping down from Bain Capital. He resumed his position at Bain Capital after losing to Ted Kennedy. A successful stint as president and CEO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the 2002 Winter Olympics led to a rebirth of his political career. <mask> signed a health care reform law in 2002 that provided near-universal health insurance access through state-level subsidies and individual mandates.He oversaw the elimination of the projected deficit through a combination of spending cuts, increased fees, and closing corporate tax loopholes. He did not seek reelection in 2006 and instead focused on his campaign for the Republican nomination. <mask> lost the nomination to McCain despite winning several primaries and caucuses. <mask>'s net worth of up to $250 million helped finance his political campaigns before he won the Republican presidential nomination, becoming the first Mormon to be a major party's nominee. He lost the election to Barack Obama by a margin of 206–332 and the popular vote by almost five million votes. <mask> defeated Mike Kennedy in the Republican primary and Jenny Wilson in the general election to win the U.S. Senate seat held by the retiring Orrin Hatch. He became the third person in history to be elected governor of one state and senator for another state.<mask> was one of four children born to George W<mask> and Lenore <mask>. His mother was from Utah and his father was from a Mormon colony in Mexico. He has Scottish and German ancestry. He is a fifth-generation member of the LDS Church and a great-great-grandson of <mask>, who converted to Mormonism in its first decade. Parley P.Pratt was a great-great-grandfather. <mask> has three siblings. He was the youngest by more than six years.His parents named him after a family friend and a former quarterback for the Bears. <mask> was called "Billy" when he was a child. In 1953, the family moved from Detroit to the affluent suburb of Bloomfield Hills and his father became the chairman and CEO of American Motors, helping the company avoid bankruptcy and return to profitability. His father was a well-known figure in print and on television, and he was idolized by <mask>. <mask> attended public elementary schools until seventh grade, when he attended a private boys' prep school a few miles from his home. Many of the students there were more privileged than him. He wasn't particularly athletic and didn't distinguish himself academically.He worked as an intern in the governor's office after participating in his father's successful 1962 Michigan gubernatorial campaign. <mask>'s father began spending most of his time at the state capitol when <mask> took up residence at Cranbrook. <mask> joined the pep squad after helping manage the ice hockey team. He was a member of the cross country running team. The Blue Key Club was a booster group he started. His academic record improved during his last year there, but fell short of excellence. <mask> was a student at Cranbrook.He apologized for them, saying that some of them may have gone too far. In March of his senior year, he began dating Ann Davies, who attended the private Kingswood School. The two became friends after he graduated from high school. <mask> attended the college for a year in the 1960's. He was not a part of the counterculture of the 1960s. <mask> joined a counter protest against the group that staged the May 1966 sit-in at the administration building. He continued to enjoy pranking.He began a 30-month stint in France as a Mormon missionary in 1966. He lived in cramped quarters in Le Havre. Rules against drinking, smoking, and dating were strictly followed. <mask> estimated 10 to 20 converts for his entire mission, despite the fact that individual Mormon missionaries do not gain many converts. He said it was the only time when most of what he was trying to do was rejected. He was given repeat visits to many of the homes he called on. He became an assistant to the mission president in Paris after becoming a zone leader in Bordeaux.He lived at the Mission Home for several months and found the mansion far more comfortable than the accommodations he had in other parts of the country. <mask> debated the French about their opposition to the U.S. role in the Vietnam War. The people who yelled at him and slammed their doors in his face reinforced his resolve. In June 1968, he was in southern France and driving an automobile that was hit by another vehicle, which seriously injured him and killed one of his passengers, the wife of the mission president. After the May 1968 general strike and student uprisings, <mask> became co-president of a mission that had become disorganized and demoralized. The mission met its goal of 200 baptisms with the help of <mask>. He was in charge of 175 others by the end of his stint.<mask> developed a lifelong affection for France and its people because of his experience there. <mask> and Ann Davies decided to get married at their first meeting after <mask> returned. <mask> moved to Utah to enroll at a university where Ann was studying. They married in a civil ceremony in Bloomfield Hills on March 21, 1969 and then went to Utah for a Mormon wedding on the same day. While in France, <mask> missed a lot of the anti-Vietnam War movement. He was surprised to learn that his father had joined that movement during his unsuccessful 1968 presidential campaign. The United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development was George."If it wasn't a political blunder to move into Vietnam, I don't know what is," said <mask> in a June 1970 newspaper profile of children of cabinet members. <mask> received deferments while living in France as a missionary during the U.S. military draft for the Vietnam War. He received two more student deferments. He drew number 300 in the December 1969 draft lottery so he wouldn't be drafted. <mask> was not part of the upheaval of that era. He showed discipline in his studies after becoming president of the Cougar Club booster organization. During his senior year, he took a leave of absence to work as an advance man for his mother's unsuccessful U.S. Senate campaign.<mask> graduated from the school with a degree in English and a 3.97 grade point average. He gave addresses to both the College of Humanities and the whole of the school. The <mask>s' first son, Taggart, was born in 1970 and they lived in a basement apartment. Matthew was born in 1971 and Joshua in 1975. <mask> began his career before Benjamin and Craig were born. <mask>'s father told him that a law degree would be valuable to his career even if he never practiced law. The four-year joint Juris Doctor/Master of Business Administration program was created by Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School.The business school's pragmatic, data-driven case study method of teaching made it easy for him to adapt. His social experience was different from that of most of his classmates because he lived in a house with Ann and their two children. He didn't involve himself in the political issues of the day because he was nonideological. <mask> graduated from Harvard in 1975. He was named a Baker Scholar for graduating in the top 5% of his business school class and received his Juris Doctor degree cum laude for ranking in the top third of his law school class. <mask> passed the Michigan bar exam but decided to pursue a career in business rather than law. He joined the Boston Consulting Group because he thought working as a management consultant for a variety of companies would prepare him for a future position as a chief executive.He found his legal and business education useful in his job as part of a 1970s wave of top graduates who chose to go into consulting rather than join a large company directly. He was seen as having a bright future by executives because he applied principles such as the growth-share matrix. He and Benjamin Netanyahu have a friendship that has lasted for more than 40 years. Bill Bain and several other ex-BCG employees formed Bain & Company in Boston in 1977 and hired him. Bain said of <mask>, "He had the appearance of confidence of a guy who was maybe ten years older." Bain & Company immersed itself in a client's businesses and worked with them until changes were implemented. <mask> became a vice president of the firm in 1978 and worked with clients such as the Monsanto Company.He was considered one of the firm's best consultants within a few years. Clients preferred to use him rather than more senior partners. During <mask>'s political campaigns, there were two family incidents. <mask> was told in 1981 that he would have to pay a $50 fine if he took his boat onto the lake. <mask> disagreed with the license and wanted to continue the family outing, so he took it out and paid the fine. He was arrested for disorderly conduct. The charges were dropped a few days later.On a 12-hour family road trip in 1983, he placed the family's dog in a carrier on the roof of their car and washed the car and carrier after the dog got sick. The dog incident became fodder for <mask>'s critics. <mask> left Bain & Company to co-found and lead the spin-off private equity investment firm Bain Capital. After Bain rearranged the terms in a complicated partnership structure so that there was no financial or professional risk to <mask>, he accepted the offer to head the new venture. The $37 million needed to start the new operation was raised by Bain and <mask>. <mask> was the managing general partner. publications called him the managing director or CEO even though he was the sole shareholder.Bain Capital focused on venture capital investments. <mask> set up a system in which any partner could veto one of these potential opportunities, and he personally saw so many weaknesses that few venture capital investments were approved in the initial two years. Stemberg convinced <mask> of the market size for office supplies and <mask> convinced others; Bain Capital eventually reaped a nearly sevenfold return on its investment. <mask> switched Bain Capital's focus to buying existing companies with money borrowed from banking institutions and taking steps to improve the companies' value, and then selling those companies when their value peaked. 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Bain Capital's success-to-failure ratio was about even, but much of the firm's profit was earned from a relatively small number of deals.<mask> failed to make money for the firm and discovered few investment opportunities himself. He focused on analyzing the merits of possible deals that others brought forward and on recruiting investors to participate in them once approved. <mask> kept less than 10% of the profits from Bain Capital deals to himself. He was often a devil's advocate during the analysis of whether to go forward with a deal. He wanted to drop a Bain Capital hedge fund that initially lost money, but other partners disagreed with him and it eventually made billions. He didn't want to profit from a studio that produced R-rated films. <mask> was on the board of directors of a medical testing company that was found guilty of defrauding the government and Bain Capital tripled its investment before selling off the company.<mask> didn't have a lot of involvement with the company after Bain Capital acquired it. Bain Capital's buyouts sometimes led to layoffs, either soon after acquisition or after the firm had concluded its role. Due to a lack of records and Bain Capital's penchant for privacy, we don't know how many jobs Bain Capital added compared to those lost. Maximizing the value of acquired companies and the return to Bain's investors, not job creation, was the firm's primary investment goal. Bain Capital made a lot of money from the acquisition of Ampad, even though the company went into bankruptcy. Bain Capital received an eightfold return on its investment but the company itself was saddled with debt and laid off over a thousand employees before Bain Capital exited and the company went into bankruptcy. <mask> said in 2007 that sometimes the medicine is a little bitter but it is necessary to save the life of the patient.The best security a family can have is that the business they work for is strong, as my job was to try and make the enterprise successful. <mask> was asked to return by Bain & Company in 1990. He drew a symbolic salary of one dollar when he became its new CEO in January 1991. He oversaw an effort to restructure Bain & Company's employee stock-ownership plan and real-estate deals, while rallying the firm's 1,000 employees, imposing a new governing structure that excluded Bain and the other founding partners from control, and increasing fiscal transparency. He got Bain and other initial owners who had removed excessive amounts of money from the firm to return substantial amounts, and persuaded the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to accept less than full payment. Bain & Company returned to profitability within a year. He returned to Bain Capital in December 1992.<mask> left Bain Capital in November 1993 to run for the US Senate. Ampad workers went on strike and asked <mask> to intervene. <mask> met the strikers but told them he had no authority in the matter. By 1999, Bain Capital was on its way to becoming one of the foremost private equity firms in the nation, having increased its number of partners from 5 to 18, with 115 employees and $4 billion under management. The average internal rate of return on realized investments was 113% and the average yearly return to investors was 50%. <mask> took a paid leave of absence from Bain Capital in order to serve as the president and CEO of the Salt Lake City Olympic Games organizing committee. <mask> remained the firm's sole shareholder, managing director, CEO, and president, signing corporate and legal documents, attending to his interests within the firm, and conducting lengthy negotiations for the terms of his departure.He did not have a say in the investment decisions of the new private equity funds. He kept his position on several boards of directors and went back to Massachusetts to attend meetings. <mask> decided not to return to Bain Capital in 2001. After his separation from the firm, he transferred his ownership to other partners and negotiated an agreement that allowed him to receive a share of the profits as a retired partner in some Bain Capital entities. The private equity business earned him millions of dollars a year. <mask> held several positions in the local lay clergy. He was a ward bishopric in the early 1970s.While Richard L. Bushman was stake president, he served as a seminary teacher and as a member of the stake high council. He was a counselor to the president of the Boston Stake. He was bishop of the ward in Massachusetts from 1981 to 1986. In addition to home teaching, he formulated Sunday services and classes using LDS scriptures to guide the congregation. He forged links with other religious institutions after the destruction of the meetinghouse in 1984 and allowed the congregation to use other houses of worship during the reconstruction of the building. <mask> was president of the Boston Stake from 1986 to 1994 and included more than a dozen wards in eastern Massachusetts. He tried to solve social problems among poor Southeast Asian converts by organizing a team to handle financial and management issues.His local church leadership often took 30 or more hours a week of his time, and he became known for his considerable energy in the role. He avoided overnight travel because it might interfere with his church responsibilities. <mask> took a hands-on role in the Boston Stake's matters, helping in domestic maintenance efforts, visiting the sick, and counseling church members. A number of

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texts: local church members credited him with turning their lives around. Others were rankled by his leadership style and wanted a more consensus-based approach. <mask> tried to balance the conservative directives from church leadership in Utah with the desire of some Massachusetts members to have a more flexible application of religious doctrine. He was in agreement with some of the requests from the liberal women's group that called for changes in the way the church dealt with women, but he disagreed with some of them.He counseled women not to have abortions, INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals INRDeals <mask> said that the years he spent as an LDS minister gave him exposure to people struggling financially and those with family problems. <mask> did not take public political stances for much of his business career. The circumstances of his father's presidential campaign loss irked him for a long time, and he had kept up with national politics since college. He voted for Paul Tsongas in the 1992 presidential primaries. <mask> began thinking about entering politics partly because of Ann's urging and also because of his father's footsteps. He decided to challenge the incumbent.Ted Kennedy was seeking reelection. This was Kennedy's first election since the William Kennedy Smith trial in Florida, in which Kennedy's reputation had suffered, and Kennedy was seen by political pundits as vulnerable because of the unpopularity of the Democratic Congress as a whole. <mask> officially announced his candidacy in February 1994 after changing his affiliation to Republican. <mask> stepped down from his church leadership role in 1994. <mask> proved to be the most effective fundraiser despite Janet Jeghelian taking an early lead in polls for the Republican nomination for the Senate seat. He won a majority of the vote at the Massachusetts Republican Party convention in 1994. <mask> won the September 1994 primary with 80% of the vote.Kennedy faced the first serious reelection challenge of his career in the general election. The younger, telegenic, and well-funded <mask> ran as a businessman who said he had created 10,000 jobs and as a Washington outsider with a solid family image and moderate stances on social issues. <mask> was an independent during the time of Reagan- Bush. I don't want us to go back to Reagan-Bush. <mask> said that the campaign was about change. <mask>'s campaign was effective in portraying Kennedy as soft on crime, but it had trouble establishing its own consistent positions. The race was shown to be even by mid-September 1994.Kennedy responded with a series of ads that focused on <mask>'s seemingly shifting political views on issues such as abortion; <mask> responded, "I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country." The layoffs of workers at the Ampad plant were the focus of some Kennedy ads. <mask>'s momentum was blunted by the latter. The late October debate between Kennedy and <mask> had no clear winner, but Kennedy pulled ahead in the polls and remained so. <mask> spent $3 million of his own money on the race. Despite a disastrous showing for Democrats nationwide, Kennedy won the election with 58% of the vote to <mask>'s 41%, the smallest margin in any of Kennedy's reelection campaigns for the Senate. <mask> told his brother that he wouldn't run for anything again unless he could win.<mask> donated his inheritance to the George W. Romney Institute of Public Management. The Points of Light Foundation embraced his father's National Volunteer Center. <mask> felt restless as he neared the end of the decade. He still taught Sunday School despite being no longer in a local leadership position. He was worried that he would become a focal point for opposition to the Mormon temple because of his opposition to Kennedy. He kept to a limited role in attempts to ease tensions between the church and local residents. The worst day of <mask>'s life was when he watched his wife fail a series of neurological tests.While living in Park City, Utah, where the couple had built a vacation home, she found a combination of mainstream, alternative, and equestrian therapies that enabled her to lead a lifestyle without limitations. When her husband received a job offer to take over the troubled organization responsible for the 2002 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, to be held in Salt Lake City in Utah, she urged him to accept it; eager for a new challenge, as well as another chance to prove himself in public life, he <mask> was hired as the president and CEO of the Salt Lake organizing committee for the 2002 Winter Olympics. The event was $379 million short of its revenue goals before <mask> took over. There were fears that the Games might be moved away entirely because of the fiscal crisis. The Games' image was damaged by allegations of bribery against top officials, including prior committee president and CEO Frank Joklik. Joklik and Johnson were forced to resign by the Salt Lake Organizing Committee.Utah power brokers searched for someone with a scandal-free reputation to take charge of the Olympics. <mask> was chosen because of his business and legal expertise, as well as his connections to both the LDS Church and the state. The appointment was criticized by both Mormons and non- Mormons for representing cronyism and making the Games seem too Mormon. <mask> donated to charity the money he received for his three years as president and CEO, as well as $1 million to the Olympics. <mask> made changes to the organization's leadership and policies. He reduced budgets and raised more money for corporate sponsors. <mask> coordinated a $300 million security budget after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.He oversaw a 1.32 billion dollar budget and 700 employees. Roughly $400 million to $600 million of that budget was provided by the federal government due to <mask>'s lobbying. The United States received a record amount of federal funding for the staging of the Olympics. More than $1 billion of federal funding came to the state in the form of highway and transit projects. <mask> emerged as the local public face of the Olympic effort, appearing in photographs, in news stories, on collectible Olympics pins depicting him wrapped by an American flag, and on buttons with phrases like "Hey, <mask>, we love you!" The chair of the organizing committee said that <mask> wanted to use the Olympics to propel himself into the national spotlight and a political career. There were still three years to reorganize, so Garff believed the initial budget situation was not as bad as <mask> claimed.Utah Senator Bob Bennett said that most of the federal money was already in place. The committee had nearly $1 billion in committed revenues at that time, according to a Boston Globe analysis. Steve Pace, who led Utahns for Responsible Public Spending, thought <mask> exaggerated the initial fiscal state to lay the groundwork for a rescue. The head of the Utah League of Cities and Towns, Kenneth Bullock, clashed with <mask> at the time, but later said that <mask> deserved some credit for the turn around, but not as much as he claimed. He tried to build an image of himself as a white hope. He was good at putting himself on a pedestal. The Games ended up with a surplus of $100 million despite the initial fiscal shortfall.85% of Utahns approved of <mask>'s performance as Olympics head, according to President George W. Bush. Harvard Business School taught a case study about his actions, which solidified his reputation as a "turnaround artist". The greatest Winter Games I have ever seen were the result of <mask>'s extraordinary effort in overcoming a difficult time for the Olympics. <mask> wrote a book about his experience called Turnaround: Crisis, Leadership, and the Olympic Games. The role gave him experience in dealing with federal, state, and local entities, a public persona he had previously lacked, and the chance to restart his political ambitions. In 2002, the administration of Republican acting Governor of Massachusetts Jane Swift appeared vulnerable and many Republicans viewed her as unable to win a general election. Prominent party figures wanted <mask> to run for governor and the opportunity appealed to him because of its national visibility.<mask> was favored by more than 50 percentage points in the Boston Herald poll. On March 19, 2002, Swift announced she would not seek the party's nomination, and hours later <mask> declared his candidacy, for which he would face no opposition in the primary. In June 2002, the Massachusetts Democratic Party challenged <mask>'s eligibility to run for governor, noting that state law required seven years' consecutive residence and that <mask> had filed his state tax returns as a Utah resident. The bipartisan Massachusetts State Ballot Law Commission unanimously ruled that he was an eligible candidate because he had maintained sufficient financial and personal ties to Massachusetts. <mask> was a political outsider. He said he was not a partisan Republican but rather a moderate with progressive views. He said he would observe a moratorium on changes to the state's laws on abortion, but that his position was "unequivocal" and that he would "preserve and protect a woman's right to choose".He said his private sector experience qualifies him for addressing the state's fiscal problems and that he could get federal funds for the state. He proposed to reorganize the state government. The campaign used innovative techniques to identify like-minded groups of voters and reach them with narrowly tailored messaging. In an attempt to overcome the image that had damaged him in the 1994 Senate race, <mask>'s campaign staged a series of "work days" in which he performed blue-collar jobs. Television ads highlighting the effort, as well as one portraying his family in gushing terms and showing him shirtless, received a poor public response and were a factor in his Democratic opponent, Massachusetts State Treasurer Shannon O'Brien, leading in the polls as late as mid-October. He responded with ads that accused O'Brien of being a failed watchdog for state pension fund losses in the stock market and that associated her husband, a former lobbyist, with the Enron scandal. These were used to capture independent voters.O'Brien said that <mask>'s budget plans were unrealistic and that the two differed on capital punishment and bilingual education. <mask> donated more than $6 million to his campaign, which was a state record at the time. He won the election with 50% of the vote to O'Brien's 45%. On January 2, 2003 Tenure <mask> became the 70th governor of Massachusetts. He faced a Massachusetts state legislature with large Democratic majorities in both houses, and had picked his cabinet and advisors based more on managerial abilities than partisan affiliation. He did not accept a governor's salary of $135,000 during his term. In the middle of a fiscal year, he faced an immediate $650 million shortfall and a projected $3 billion deficit for the next year.Unexpected revenue from a previously enacted capital gains tax increase and $500 million in new federal grants resulted in a decrease in the deficit. Through a combination of spending cuts, increased fees, and removal of corporate tax loopholes, the state achieved surpluses of around $600– 700 million during <mask>'s last two full fiscal years in office, although it began running deficits again after that. Raising various fees, including those for drivers' licenses and gun licenses, was supported by <mask>. $60 million per year was added to the revenue by increasing the gasoline retailer fee. Opponents said the reliance on fees sometimes made it hard for those who couldn't afford them. Over the next two years and over $300 million for his term, <mask> closed tax loopholes that brought in $181 million from businesses. Conservative and corporate critics viewed these actions as tax increases.$700 million in state aid to cities and towns was cut as a result of the state legislature's MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE A reduction in state funding for higher education resulted in state-run colleges and universities increasing their fees by over 50% over four years. The legislature overrode <mask>'s vetoes of nearly 250 items in the state budget. The cuts in state spending put added pressure on localities to reduce services or raise property taxes, and the share of town and city revenues coming from property taxes rose. During <mask>'s time in Massachusetts, the combined state and local tax burden increased. The legislature rejected his proposal to reduce the state income tax rate. <mask> wanted to bring health insurance coverage to the state.Stemberg told him at the start of his term that doing so would be the best way to help people. The federal government threatened to cut $385 million in Medicaid payments to Massachusetts if they didn't reduce the number of uninsured people. <mask> decided to use the money spent by the state for health care for the poor because the idea of universal health insurance didn't come up during the campaign. <mask> formed a team of consultants from diverse political background to apply the principles of the new Massachusetts health insurance measure, which was determined to not raise taxes or resemble the previous decade's failed "Hillarycare" proposal at the federal level. They came up with a set of proposals that were more ambitious than the one from the Massachusetts Senate and more acceptable to him than the one from the Massachusetts House of Representatives. <mask> wanted an individual mandate at the state level. Ted Kennedy, who had made universal health coverage his life's work and who had developed a warm relationship with <mask>, gave the plan a positive reception which encouraged Democratic legislators to cooperate.The effort eventually gained the support of all major stakeholders within the state, and <mask> helped break a logjam between rival Democratic leaders in the legislature. <mask>care, also known as the Massachusetts health reform law, was signed on April 12, 2006 and requires nearly all Massachusetts residents to buy health insurance or face tax penalties. The bill established means-tested state subsidies for people who lacked adequate employer insurance and whose income was below a threshold, using funds that had covered the health costs of the uninsured. The health care legislation included a $295-per-employee assessment on businesses that do not offer health insurance and provisions guaranteeing dental benefits to Medicaid recipients. The differences were not essential, according to the governor's office. The signature achievement of <mask>'s term in office was the first of its kind in the nation. <mask> supported some domestic partnership benefits at the beginning of his governorship but opposed same-sex marriage and civil unions.The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled in 2003 that the state must recognize same-sex marriages. <mask> reluctantly backed a state constitutional amendment in February 2004 that would have banned those marriages but still allowed civil unions, viewing it as the only feasible way to comply with the court's ruling. He instructed the town clerks to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. He said no marriage licenses would be issued to people not planning to move to Massachusetts because of a 1913 law that barred out-of-state residents from marrying in Massachusetts. <mask> abandoned his support for the compromise amendment because it confused voters who opposed both same-sex marriage and civil unions. He endorsed a ballot initiative led by the Coalition for Marriage and Family that would have banned same-sex marriage and made no provisions for civil unions. He urged the Senate to vote for the Federal Marriage Amendment.In 2005, <mask> revealed a change of view regarding abortion, moving from the abortion rights positions expressed during his 1994 and 2002 campaigns to an anti-abortion one. <mask> attributed his conversion to an interaction he had with an expert on stem cell biology. The legislature overrode <mask>'s veto of the pro-life bill. He changed his position on stem cell research. <mask> used a bully pulpit approach to promote his agenda, staging well-organized media events to appeal directly to the public rather than pushing his proposals in behind-doors sessions with the state legislature. He dealt with a public crisis of confidence in Boston's Big Dig project after a fatal ceiling collapse in 2006 by wresting control of the project from the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority. <mask> pulled Massachusetts out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative due to a lack of cost limits for industry.<mask> tried to bolster the state Republican Party, but it didn't gain any seats in the legislative elections. He was discussed as a potential 2008 presidential candidate after his appearance at the Republican National Convention. <mask> decided midway through his term that he wanted to run for president, and on December 14, 2005, he announced that he wouldn't seek reelection as governor. <mask> spent more than 200 days out of state in 2006 preparing for his run, as chair of the Republican Governors Association, he traveled

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texts: around the country, meeting prominent Republicans and building a national political network. <mask> had a 61% job approval rating after his initial fiscal actions in 2003 but it subsequently declined due to his frequent out-of-state travel. In November of 2006 it was 34%, ranking 48th of the 50 U.S. governors. <mask>'s lieutenant governor, Kerry Healey, was defeated in the 2006 Massachusetts governor's race by 20 points, with the win partially due to dissatisfaction with <mask>'s administration and the weak condition of the state Republican party.<mask> filed to register a presidential campaign committee on his last day as governor. His term ended on January 4, 2007. On February 13, 2007, <mask> formally announced his candidacy for the 2008 Republican nomination for president. His speech frequently invoked his father and family, and stressed his experiences in the private, public, and voluntary sectors that had brought him to this point. <mask>'s career in business and his stewardship of the 2002 Olympics were emphasized by the campaign. He had political experience as a governor and his father had a political background as well as many biographical parallels with him. <mask>, who had become an advocate for those with multiple sclerosis, was in remission and was an active participant in his campaign.A number of commentators noted that <mask> matched a common image of what a president should look like because of his square jaw and gray hair. <mask>'s biggest liability was that he had taken positions in opposition to the party's conservative base while he was governor of one of the most liberal states. He shifted his positions late in his term as governor to better align with traditional conservatives on social issues. <mask> was accused of opportunism and a lack of core principles. Some in the Evangelical wing of the party were suspicious of him as a Mormon. <mask> assembled a group of Republican staffers, consultants, and pollsters. He hovered around 10% support in Republican preference polls for the first half of 2007, but was little-known nationally.He partly funded his campaign with his own money and proved to be the most effectiveraiser of the Republican candidates. The resources combined with the near-collapse of John McCain's campaign made <mask> a threat to win the nomination and the focus of the other candidates' attacks. <mask> himself was indecisive at times, often asking for more data before making a decision. <mask> has avoided speaking about Mormon doctrine during his campaigns because of the U.S. Constitution's prohibition of religious tests for public office. <mask>'s December 6, 2007, "Faith in America" speech was the result of persistent questions about the role of religion in his life, as well as Mike Huckabee's rise in the polls based on an explicitly Christian-themed campaign. <mask> stated that he believed in his Mormon faith and wanted to live by it. My faith is that of my fathers.I will be true to my beliefs. He said that he should not be elected or rejected because of his religion, like Senator John F. Kennedy said during his 1960 presidential campaign. He said he would be informed by the tenets of his faith instead of discussing them. Either freedom and religion survive or die alone. The role religion played in the campaign was studied by academics. Winning the Iowa Republican caucuses and the New Hampshire primary would propel <mask> nationally. He lost Iowa to Huckabee, who received more than twice the evangelical Christian votes, and New Hampshire to McCain, who received more than twice the evangelical Christian votes.Huckabee and McCain criticized <mask>'s image as a flip-flopper and this label stuck to <mask> through the campaign (one that <mask> rejected as unfair and inaccurate, except for his acknowledged change of mind on abortion). <mask> seemed to approach the campaign as a management consulting exercise, and showed a lack of personal warmth and political feel; journalist Evan Thomas wrote that <mask> " came off as a phony, even when he was perfectly sincere." The perception of inauthenticity that hampered the campaign was caused by the fervor with which <mask> adopted his new stances. His staff concluded that competing as a candidate of social conservatism and ideological purity was a mistake. McCain's win in South Carolina and <mask>'s win in Michigan set up a crucial battle in the Florida primary. <mask> was attacked on Iraq policy by McCain while <mask> was attacked on economic issues. McCain won by five points.<mask> continued through the Super Tuesday contests despite many Republican officials lining up behind McCain. McCain won in more and larger-population states in the primaries and caucuses. <mask> ended his campaign on February 7 after trailing McCain by more than two-to-one delegates. <mask> had won 11 primaries and caucuses and received over five million votes. He spent $110 million on the campaign. <mask> endorsed McCain for president a week later, and McCain had <mask> on a short list for running mate, where his business experience would have balanced one of McCain's weaknesses. Behind in the polls, McCain opted for a high-risk, high-reward "game change", Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.McCain lost the election. <mask> supported the Bush administration's Troubled Asset Relief Program in response to the late-2000s financial crisis, later saying that it prevented the U.S. financial system from collapsing. During the U.S. automotive industry crisis of 2008–10, he argued that a managed bankruptcy of struggling automobile companies should be accompanied by federal guarantees for post-bankruptcy financing from the private sector. <mask> used his Free and Strong America political action committee to raise money for other Republican candidates and pay his existing political staff's salaries and consulting fees after the 2008 election. A network of former staff and supporters wanted him to run again. He continued to give speeches and raise funds for Republicans, but he turned down many media appearances because he was afraid of overexposure. He spoke before many groups.He was on the board of directors of Marriott International from 2009 to 2011. From 1993 to 2002 he was on it. In 2009, the <mask>s sold their primary residence in Belmont, Utah, and their ski chalet in Utah, leaving them an estate along Lake Winnipesaukee in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, and an oceanfront home in the La Jolla district of San Diego, California. The location and climate of the La Jolla home proved to be beneficial for <mask>'s multiple sclerosis therapies and for recovering from her late 2008 diagnosis of mammary ductal carcinoma in situ. The New Hampshire estate was near some of their children. <mask> bought a smaller condominium in 2010 and maintained his voting registration in Massachusetts. <mask> and Skyblu had an altercation on an airplane flight in February of 2010.<mask> undertook an 18-state book tour to promote his book, No Apology: The Case for American Greatness. He writes about his belief in American exceptionalism in the book, but he doesn't talk about his personal or political life. The New York Times had a list of the best sellers. <mask> gave his earnings from the book to charity. <mask> attacked the Patient Protection andAffordable Care Act as an abuse of power and said it should be repealed. According to an Associated Press article, the new federal law looked a lot like <mask>care, since it was in many ways similar to the Massachusetts health care reform passed during his gubernatorial tenure. <mask> acknowledged that his plan was not perfect, but he did not back away from it.He defended the state-level health insurance mandate that underpinned it, calling the bill the right answer to Massachusetts's problems at the time. <mask> was in the top three in nationwide opinion polling for the 2012 Republican presidential primaries. A January 2010 National Journal survey of political insiders found that a majority of Republicans and a majority of Democrats thought <mask> would be the party's 2012 nominee. <mask> raised more money for Republican candidates in the 2010 elections than the other prospective 2012 Republican presidential candidates. He presented a more relaxed image in 2011. <mask> formed an exploratory committee for the Republican presidential nomination in April of 2011. Scott said, "We all knew he was going to run."He's been running for president since the day after the election. <mask> stood to benefit from the Republican electorate's tendency to nominate candidates who had previously run for president, and thus appeared to be next in line to be chosen. He was seen as the front-runner in a weak field in the early stages of the race. Party opposition to the Massachusetts health care reform law that he shepherded five years earlier was his greatest hurdle in gaining the Republican nomination. Republican party figures searched for alternatives to <mask> after many potential Republican candidates decided not to run. <mask> officially started his campaign on June 2, 2011. He criticized Obama's handling of the economy while speaking on a farm in New Hampshire."In the campaign to come, the American ideals of economic freedom and opportunity need a clear and unapologetic defense, and I intend to make it," he said. <mask> raised more money than any of his Republican opponents, but did not spend his own money on the campaign. He pursued a low-profile strategy. In September of last year, a surge in polls was preceded by a surge in polls by RickPerry, who had entered the race the month before. The Republican candidates sparred during a series of debates. The field of candidates was settled by the October decision of Chris Christie not to run. Herman Cain's "long-shot" bid gained popularity until allegations of sexual misconduct derailed it.<mask> continued to seek support from a wary Republican electorate; at this point in the race, his poll numbers were relatively flat and at a historically low level for a Republican front-runner. After the charges of flip-flopping that marked his 2008 campaign began to accumulate again, <mask> said in November 2011; "I've been as consistent as human beings can be." In the month before voting began, Newt Gingrich experienced a significant surge, taking a solid lead in national polls and most of the early caucus and primary states, before settling back into parity or worse with <mask> following a barrage of negative ads from Restore Our Future, a pro-<mask> <mask> was declared the winner of the Iowa caucuses with 25% of the vote, edging out Rick Santorum by eight votes. They certified Santorum as the winner after 16 days. <mask> won the New Hampshire primary with 39% of the vote, followed by Paul with 22% and Jon Huntsman Jr. with 18%. In the run-up to the South Carolina Republican primary, Gingrich launched ads attacking <mask> for causing job losses, while at Bain Capital, <mask>n pressed <mask> to prove his claim that he created 100,000 jobs during that time.Conservatives rejected criticism of free-market capitalism in defense of <mask>. Gingrich gained support with audience-rousing attacks on the debate moderators, while <mask> fumbled questions about releasing his income tax returns. <mask> lost the January 21 primary to Gingrich by 13 points and his double-digit lead in state polls evaporated. <mask>'s poor week was a lost chance to end the race early, and he quickly decided to release two years of his tax returns. <mask> launched a sustained onslaught against Gingrich's record, associations and electability in the Florida primary. <mask> enjoyed a large spending advantage from both his campaign and his aligned Super PAC, and after a record-breaking rate of negative ads from both sides, <mask> won Florida with 42% of the vote to Gingrich's 32%. Several caucuses and primaries took place during February, and Santorum won three in a single night early in the month, catapulting him into the lead in national and state polls and positioning him as <mask>'s chief rival.<mask> told the Conservative Political Action Conference that he had been a "severely conservative governor" and that he had maintained that his positions were moderate. <mask> won the Michigan contest at the end of the month. <mask> won six of ten contests in the Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses, including a narrow victory in Ohio over Santorum. Although his victories were not enough to end the race, they were enough to establish a two-to-one delegate lead over Santorum. Santorum suspended his campaign on April 10, after <mask> maintained his delegate margin through subsequent contests. The RNC put its resources to work for <mask> as the party's presumptive nominee after a sweep of five more contests on April 24. <mask> won the Texas primary with a majority of the delegates.The polls indicated a tight race for the general election. <mask> kept money in offshore tax havens and Swiss bank accounts while at Bain Capital, which was the subject of a negative ad by Obama. The issue dealt with <mask>'s alleged responsibility for actions at Bain Capital after he took the Olympics post. <mask> faced demands from Democrats to release additional years of his tax returns, an action a number of Republicans felt would be wise; after being adamant that he would not do that, he released summaries of them in late September. During May and June, the Obama campaign spent a lot and was able to paint a negative image of <mask> in voters' minds before the <mask> campaign could build a positive one. <mask> traveled to the United Kingdom, Israel, and Poland in July of 2012 in order to raise his credibility as a world leader. The British press perceived his comments about the 2012 Summer Olympics to be undiplomatic.Some Palestinians criticized <mask> for suggesting that Israel's culture led to their economic success, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu embraced <mask>. The <mask> campaign named Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as their running mate. <mask> was nominated for president on August 28, 2012 at the Republican National Convention. <mask> is the first Mormon to be a major-party presidential nominee. In mid-September, a video surfaced of <mask> speaking before a group of supporters in which he said that 47% of the nation pays no income tax, are dependent on the federal government, and will support Obama. My job is not to worry about those people. I will never convince them that they should care for their lives.After facing criticism about the tone and accuracy of these comments, he at first characterized them as "inelegantly stated", then a couple of weeks later commented: "I said something that's just completely wrong." The exit polls showed that voters didn't think <mask> cared about people like them. <mask> said in an interview that Russia was our number one foe. The innocuous response to a foreign policy question became a focal point for Democratic attacks on <mask> during the campaign. Hillary Clinton called <mask>'s position "dated" and 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 At the Democratic National Convention, John Kerry called <mask>'s comments "breathtakingly off target" and said, "He's even blurted out the preposterous notion that Russia is our number one political foe." Romney continued to defend his position in the presidential debates, saying that Russia is a "geopolitical foe" and that the nation which consistently opposed our actions at the United Nations has been Russia.The first presidential election debate took place in Denver. <mask> was seen as having delivered a stronger and more focused presentation than Obama. <mask> maintained a small advantage in the debates despite Obama's improved presentation in the next two debates. Obama was projected to win the election at 11:14 pm Eastern Standard Time. He won more electoral votes than <mask>. <mask> received 45% of the popular vote, but lost all but one of the nine battleground states. <mask> was described as shocked by the result.He and his senior campaign staff thought they were going to win until the vote tally began to be reported on election night. <mask>'s get out the vote operation was inferior to Obama's, both in person-to-person organization and in voter modeling and outreach technology. He told his supporters that he and Paul had left everything on the field. We have given everything to this campaign. I wish I could have led this country in a different direction, but the nation chose another leader. <mask> attributed his defeat to Obama's having secured the votes of specific interest groups, including African Americans, Hispanic Americans, young people, and women, by offering them what <mask> called "extraordinary". The remark was criticized by members of the Republican party.<mask> kept a low profile after his defeat, with his ordinary daily activities around San Diego captured via social media. He joined the board of Marriott International in December of 2012 for a third time. <mask> said in an interview that it kills him not to be in the White House doing what needs to be done. He said that the "47 percent" remark hurt his campaign. He said the same things a year

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