Taking a stand: A young Mitt Romney holds up a placard at a pro-draft demonstration at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, in May 1966
- Teenage Romney takes unpopular stance in favour of south-east Asian war.
- But his status as ‘Mormon missionary’ exempted him from the draft.
- Future GOP presidential candidate dressed in smart, preppy clothes.
- Romney’s father George was the Governor of Michigan at the time.
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