Carolyn Wells: February 29, 1936. Her hometown is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
How Ron and Carol Met:
Carol and Ron met in high school. In 1952, they had their first date when Carol asked Ron to be her escort to her 16th birthday party which was a Sadie Hawkins-type of party.
Ron proposed marriage to Carol in the summer of 1956 while they were having a picnic in a park.
Wedding Date and Information:
During Ron's senior year, he and Carol were married on February 1, 1957 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at Dormont Presbyterian Church. They had about 300 guests at their evening wedding.
The wedding reception was held at The Dormont New Century Club. They had a four-tiered traditional style wedding cake.
Their first dance as a married couple was to Doris Day's "When I Fall in Love." Ron was 21 years old and Carol was 20 years old.
Carol: "We married in an all white wedding with the bridesmaids carrying armloads of red roses. The flower girl wore a white dress and sprinkled rose petals down the aisle. A fraternity brother of Ron's sang "The Wedding Prayer" and the "Lord's Prayer."
Source: "The American Dream -- Through the Eyes of Mrs. Ron Paul.". RonPaulforCongress.com. 3-16-07.
"Carol wore a white Chantilly lace gown with a bouffant tulle skirt and a silk illusion veil attached to a half hat. Ron wore a black tux and a white tie ... Carol held a cascade of white flowers; and Ron donned a white carnation boutonniere."
Source: BridesDecide.com
Honeymoon:
Carol and Ron spent their honeymoon in Durham, North Carolina.
Children: Carolyn and Ron have five children, eighteen grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.
Ronald Paul Jr: Married to Peggy. They have three daughters. Lori Paul Pyeatt: Married to Tom Pyeatt. Randall "Rand" Paul: Rand is an ophthalmologist and U.S. Senator in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He is married to Kelley. They have three sons. Robert Paul: Robert is family practice physician. He is married to Monica. They have two children. Joy Paul-LeBlanc: Joy is an obstetrician and gynecologist. She is married to Andy. They have five children.
Ann Romney Willard Mitt Romney: March 12, 1947 in Detroit, Michigan. Ann Lois Davies: April 16, 1949. Ann was raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
Mitt and Ann met in elementary school when he was a Cub Scout. She was riding a horse and he threw stones at her. Their first date on March 21, 1965 was at the movies to see The Sound of Music.
"They had first gotten to know each other at a mutual friend's birthday party in the late winter of 1965, when he spotted the wholesome beauty with light brown hair from across the room. Mitt had just turned 18, Ann was 15 -- almost exactly the same ages his parents had been when they met."
Source: Neil Swidey and Michael Paulson, Globe Staff. "Privilege, tragedy, and a young leader." Boston.com. 06/24/2007.
Marriage Proposal:
In June 1965 Mitt asked Ann to marry him when she was 16 years old. They had only dated for a few months.
Mitt: "I didn't want to be anywhere else but with Ann. I wanted to be with her all the time and couldn't imagine being anywhere else besides being with her. And so, at the senior prom, as we danced a little bit, we went outside of the school and I turned to her and said, 'Ann, would you marry me?' And she said, 'Yes.'"
Source: Mitt Romney. "Mitt's Tribute to Ann." MittRomney.com. 11/2006.
Wedding Date:
Mitt and Ann were married on March 21, 1969 when Mitt was 22 and Ann was 19. The first part of their wedding took place in Ann's parents' home in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in a civil ceremony officiated by church Elder Edwin Jones. Ann wore a full length white wedding dress with a long train. The next morning Mitt and Ann flew to Salt Lake City and were "sealed" for eternity in the Mormon Temple. Wedding Picture and Family Photos
Mitt and Ann raised five sons.
Taggart Romney: Born in 1970. Tagg works in marketing and is married to Jen. They have one daughter and two sons.
Matthew Romney: Born in 1971. Matt works in real estate and is married to Laurie. They have two daughters and a son.
Joshua Romney: Born in 1975. Josh is a real estate developer and is married to Jen. They have one son and one daughter.
Benjamin Romney: Born in 1978. Ben is a medical student and is married to Andelynn.
Craig Romney: Born in 1981. Craig is an advertising music producer and is married to Mary. They have one son.
Occupations:
Mitt: Presidential candidate for 2012 and 2008 elections, former governor of Massachusetts, businessman. In 1998 he took over management of the Salt Lake Winter Olympics. Ann: Volunteer instructor, director of Best Friends, and serves on the boards of several organizations.
Residences:
Ann and Mitt lived in Belmont, Massachusetts for over thirty years. Although that home was sold in 2009, as of August 2011, the Romneys still own several homes.
Beachfront home in La Jolla, California. They want to enlarge the existing $12 million 3,009-square-foot Spanish-style home by bulldozing it and replacing it with a 11,062-square-foot mansion.
Townhouse in Boston, Massachusetts. This is their main residence.
Vacation home valued at $10 million on Lake Winnipesaukee's shore in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire.
Wife Of Mitt Mother of 5 children Mitt began dating Ann Davies, two years behind him, whom he had once known in elementary school. The two informally agreed to marriage around the time of his June 1965 graduation . In July 1966, Romney left for 30 months in France as a Mormon missionary, a traditional duty that his father and other relatives had done While he was away, Ann Davies had converted to the LDS Church, guided by George Romney, and had begun attending Brigham Young University (BYU). Mitt was nervous that she had been wooed by others while he was away, and indeed she had dated others, but at their first meeting following his return they reconnected and decided to get married in two weeks but agreed to wait three months to appease their parents. They were married on March 21, 1969, in a Bloomfield Hills civil ceremony presided over by a church elder; the following day the couple flew to Utah for a wedding ceremony at the Salt Lake Temple.
Karen Santorum Santorum is the middle of the three children of Aldo Santorum (1923–2011), a clinical psychologist, and Catherine (Dughi) Santorum (1918–), an administrative nurse, met his future wife, Karen Garver Santorum, one of 12 Kids while she was a law student
Richard John "Rick" Santorum: May 10, 1958 in Winchester, Virginia. Karen Garver: From Penn Hills, Pennsylvania. How Rick and Karen Met:
Karen met Rick in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania when he was a summer intern recruiter for a law firm.
Rick: "I knew this was going to be my first serious relationship," he says of Karen. Their courtship prompted an exhaustive period of soul-searching. "We talked about every aspect of our lives."
Source: Mark Leibovich. "Father First, Senator Second." WashingtonPost.com. 4/18/2005.
Rick and Karen were married in 1990.
Rick and Karen have had eight children.
Elizabeth Anne Santorum: Born in 1991.
Richard John "Johnny" Santorum Jr: Born in 1993.
Daniel James Santorum: Born in 1995.
Gabriel Michael Santorum: Born prematurely, at 20 weeks, on October 11, 1996. Gabriel lived only two hours.
Sarah Maria Santorum: Born in 1998.
Peter Kenneth Santorum: Born in 1999.
Patrick Francis Santorum: Born in 2001.
Isabella "Bella" Maria Santorum: Born in 2008. Bella was diagnosed with Trisomy 18, a genetic disorder.
Mark Leibovich: "Upon their son's death, Rick and Karen Santorum opted not to bring his body to a funeral home. Instead, they bundled him in a blanket and drove him to Karen's parents' home in Pittsburgh. There, they spent several hours kissing and cuddling Gabriel with his three siblings, ages 6, 4 and 1 1/2. They took photos, sang lullabies in his ear and held a private Mass."
Source: Mark Leibovich. "Father First, Senator Second." WashingtonPost.com. 4/18/2005.
Residences:
Rick and Karen have two residences, though some websites still mention their Leesburg home in Virginia.
Penn Hills, Pennsylvania: Three bedrooms. Some reports note it rented to others.
Great Falls, Virginia: Purchased in 2009 for $1.26 million, the 4,899 square-foot home sits on a five acre lot and has four bedrooms, one den, four-and-a-half baths, three fireplaces, and a swimming pool.
Leesburg, Virginia: This $750,000 estate with 8 bedrooms on four acres was purchased in 1997 and was the Santorum home while Rick was in the Senate.More information about Santorum residences.
Callista Gingrich
Newt Gingrich's Third wife Callista Bisek
Newt's current marriage, his third marriage, is to Callista Bisek. Callista and Newt had a six-year affair before they married. Born:
Newt Gingrich aka Newton Leroy McPherson: June 17, 1943 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Callista Bisek: Abt. 1966.
Newt, in tails, and Callista, in white, were married on August 18, 2000 in Alexandria, Virginia. Callista was 34 and Newt was 57 when they married. Their private wedding ceremony with 150 guests was held in the Morrison House Hotel courtyard under a tent.
"Bisek wore a white, strapless dress with short train. The four bridesmaids, one of whom moments earlier had sung "Ave Maria," wore black gowns and held small rose bouquets."
Source: "Newt says 'till death do us part' for the third time." Daily Herald. Chicago, Illinois. 8/20/2000. pg. 236.
Occupations:
Callista Bisek: Congressional aide, assistant hearing clerk for the House Agricultural Committee, producer. Newt Gingrich: Fox News political analyst, author, producer, politician, public speaker, Republican Speaker of the US House of Representatives during 1995-1999.
Newt and Callista reside in McLean, Virginia. Religion:
Both Newt and Callista are catholics. Quotes About the Marriage of Callista Bisek and Newt Gingrich:
Shannon McCaffrey: "From the start, Gingrich put his wife front and center in the campaign, answering questions with 'Callista and I' and featuring her picture prominently on his website. To a certain degree, it seemed an attempt to prove to social conservatives and other Republicans skeptical of him for his adulterous past. Gingrich, 67, has acknowledged he carried on an affair with Callista when he was speaker of the House and she worked at the House Agriculture Committee ... Since they married, the Gingriches have modeled their marriage on the partnership of Ronald and Nancy Reagan: a partnership."
Source: Shannon McCaffrey. "Callista Gingrich, Newt Gingrich's Wife, Under Scrutiny Amid Campaign Upheaval." HuffingtonPost.com. 6/10/2011. David Corn: "... it was hard to make sense of Newt's scorched-earth approach to the divorce, which has already revealed his six-year-long extramarital affair with congressional aide Callista Bisek and tainted whatever was left of his image as a family-values Republican."
Source: David Corn. "Gingrich vs Gingrich." Salon.com. 11/24/1999.
Kit Gingrich, Newt's mother: "She [Callista] is a lovely girl. I liked her from the first time I saw her. This is the first time I can ever remember seeing that Newty is in love. When you see him, he just beams."
Source: "Happy in Love." Chronicle Telegram. Elyria, Ohio. 7/26/2000. pg. 5.
"Gingrich, 56, has asserted he and his wife, Marianne, were legally separated at the time, but [Randy] Evans conceded that the relationship continued even after the Gingriches were reconciled and Gingrich assumed the speakership in 1995."
Source: AP. "Aide Admits Gingrich Affair." Titusville Herald. Titusville, Pennsylvania. 11/11/1999. pg. 3.
Justin Quinn: "Gingrich has been married three times, and he has been accused of having a multitude of extramarital affairs, although he has only admitted to one -- with the woman who would eventually become his third and present wife."
Source: Justin Quinn. "A Profile of Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich." USConservatives.about.com. "Gingrich acknowledges he was having an extramarital affair even as he pushed for the impeachment of President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair."
Source: AP. "Gingrich admits affair during Clinton impeachment." Frederick News-Post. Frederick, Maryland. 3/10/2007. pg. A-10. Gingrich's daughters defend him ahead of ABC interview with ex-wife
Ex-wife: Gingrich wanted 'open marriage'
Newt Gingrich sought an "open marriage," his former wife, Marianne, told ABC News in an interview airing tonight. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6f7_1326989443&p=1
In an interview scheduled to air on ABC News, Marianne Gingrich said her ex-husband had wanted an “open marriage” so he could have both a wife and a mistress. She said Gingrich conducted an affair with Callista Bistek — his current wife — “in my bedroom in our apartment in Washington” while she was elsewhere.
“He was asking to have an open marriage and I refused. That is not a marriage,” she said in excerpts released by the network in advance of the program.
Gingrich declined to respond to his ex-wife’s comments, telling reporters his two daughters from the first of his three marriages had sent a letter to ABC “complaining about this as tawdry and inappropriate.”
In fact, the letter made no such accusations. Instead, Kathy Lubbers and Jackie Cushman wrote ABC that anyone who has endured a failed marriage “understands it is a personal tragedy filled with regrets, and sometimes differing memories of events.”
Marianne Gingrich added that she doesn't think Gingrich has the moral character to be president. http://marriage.about.com/od/politics/a/gingrichn.htm
Currently married to Callista Bisek, Newt Gingrich has been married three times. His two previous marriages ended in divorce after he had affairs with younger women and when his wives were seriously ill. Here is information about Newt Gingrich's three marriage relationships.
1962: Newt married Jackie Battley on June 19, 1962.
1963: Newt's daughter Kathy was born.
1966: Newt's daughter Jackie Sue was born.
1980: Newt met Marianne Ginther in January 1980.
1980: Jackie and Newt separated in April 1980.
1981: Jackie Battley and Newt Gingrich's divorce was finalized in February 1981.
1981: Six months later Newt married Marianne Ginther on August 8, 1981.
1987: Marianne and Newt separated in June 1987.
1993: Newt and Callista Bisek began their affair in November 1993.
1993: Marianne and Newt reconciled in late 1993/early 1994.
1999: Newt and Marianne separated in May 1999 and filed for divorce in July.
1999: Marianne and Newt reached a settlement in their divorce case.
2000: Marianne and Newt's divorce was finalized in April 2000.
2000: Callista Bisek and Newt announced their engagement.
2000: Newt married Callista Bisek on August 18, 2000.
Maggie Haberman: "Newt Gingrich addressed his multiple nuptials and admitted affairs more head-on than he has to date, telling the Christian Broadcast Network that he sought God's 'forgiveness' for the things he did wrong and that he now has a 'great' marriage."
Source: Maggie Haberman. "Newt Gingrich: 'I was doing things that were wrong.'" Politico.com. 3/08/2011.
Newt when asked how he could be unfaithful and give a speech on family values: "It doesn't matter what I do," he answered. "People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live."
Source: John H. Richardson. "Newt Gingrich: The Indispensable Republican." Esquire.com. 8/10/2010.
AP: "In 1994, Gingrich responded to reports he'd had extramarital affairs while running a family-values campaign in 1978 by saying, "In the 1970s, things happened."
Source: AP. "Wife's lawyer to question woman in Gingrich divorce case." Marysville Journal-Tribune. Marysville, Ohio. 8/13/1999. pg. 2.
Leaving two women after they are diagnosed with a severe disease, And I can't say much about any women that would Date a married man for 6 years. Couldn't stop the auto play so here is and alternative
We know Callista knows how to treat a man and stay in her place for 6 years, the only question is can she make a samich.
Karen looks like she hasn't got time to make one with all those kids.
Has Ann ever seen the Kitchen?
Carol probably can make one if she don't forget were the fridge is.
Its Obvious that Michelle knows how to eat.
We know Callista knows how to treat a man and stay in her place for 6 years, the only question is can she make a samich.
Karen looks like she hasn't got time to make one with all those kids.
Has Ann ever seen the Kitchen?
Carol probably can make one if she don't forget were the fridge is.
Its Obvious that Michelle knows how to eat.
Michelle does have an affinity for satin and belts in her wardrobe.
While the first Lady isn't the one we vote on, the question is what insight can do they offer about the man they married.
I think that the first family offers a lot of insight to the man who we put in the position to be our leader, the man that represents us to the rest of the world should be indicative of the moral fiber of the American. Providing a good example for everyone to look up to and respect.
There is no expectation of Privacy in this position, The President sacrifices his entire family's privacy when he throws his hat in the race.
so what represents us best
A practical down to earth grandmother of 18 who has raised 5 Children and still has 30 sit down to Family Dinners.
A mother of 5 boys who has never had to worry about her bank account over drafting
A Mother of 7 who is already stretched her duties to the children to the limit.
The Other women who would Date a married man for 6 years before he ask for a Divorce
A Mother of 2 that has juggled career and home trying to find a balence.
Is it Possible that we could get our Economy back to a point that households could survive on the earnings of a single breadwinner ?
Can we argue that the traditional Family is not the the goal we should strive toward?
Is keeping up with the Jones by having the latest technology and shiny cars really worth the sacrifice of traditional Values?
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
I've never regretted any first lady in office. Barbara Bush was a little mouthy...but for the most part they have all been decent and all supported good causes. More important to me to focus on the person who will be elected president. We really don't get to know the first lady all that well until after the election. But that's me. If you guys want to put more time into it, then that's just fine with me.
The blue-eyed, gray-haired, over-rouged, bespectacled First Lady with the black velvet neckband looked to all the world like the small-town Ohio matron she professed to be. Smart, ambitious, proper and prudish, Florence Kling Harding was the perfect partner for Warren G. Harding, the President who promised to return the nation to ''normalcy'' after the Great War. Or so it appeared. The real Florence Kling Harding story, as told by Carl Sferrazza Anthony in his biography, reads like the screenplay of a David Lynch film, with layer upon layer of suspicion, deception and deceit.
FLORENCE HARDING
The First Lady, the Jazz Age, and the Death of America's Most Scandalous President.
By Carl Sferrazza Anthony. Illustrated. 645 pp. New York: William Morrow & Company.
We learn that Florence Kling, before she became Mrs. Harding, had an illegitimate son whom she gave away to her own father in return for financial support. In 1891, at the age of 31, she married Warren Gamaliel Harding, a strikingly handsome 25-year-old newspaper publisher with a reputation for being ''an amiable rake.'' Thirty years later the Hardings moved into the White House, where Florence Kling (she never dropped her maiden name) Harding reigned as First Lady for the next two and a half years, until the mysterious death of her husband. Historians have not had a great deal to tell us about Mrs. Harding, in part because she burned so many of her and her husband's personal documents. ................. There may be good reason why no full-scale biography of her has been published until now.
.................He has been particularly assiduous in recounting all the Florence Harding ''firsts'': she was the ''first First Lady to entertain guests regularly with after-dinner movies,'' the first to invite an actor for a meal at the White House, the first to ''act'' for the newsreels, the ''first to send original responses'' to inquiries received in the mail, the first to hold ''noon parties and sunset dinners'' on the Presidential yacht, the first to entertain journalists privately at the White House, the first to give regular press conferences and public speeches, the first to be assigned her own Secret Service agent and probably the first -- though certainly not the last -- to summon her fortuneteller-astrologer to the White House. If this were not enough ''firsts'' for one book, Anthony informs us as well that the Harding dog was the ''first Chief Executive's pet to receive and respond to mail.''............Anthony, in fact, devotes so much time to recounting stories of Harding's adulterous affairs -- and citing long passages from his letters to one of his mistresses -- that Florence Harding is often pushed into the background of her own biography. ...................... Because his adulterous affairs never became public knowledge during his life, they had little bearing on his Presidency or his wife's tenure as First Lady. Unlike the current occupants of the White House, the Hardings did not have to defend the President's morality in public, hire lawyers or raise money to fight off lawsuits and special prosecutors.
..........While Mrs. Harding, he concludes, was not guilty of poisoning her husband, as was hinted at the time, she was indirectly responsible for his death, he believes, as she had persuaded her husband to appoint as Presidential physician the homeopath she wanted brought to Washington to treat her kidney. It was this doctor who misdiagnosed and mistreated Harding's heart attack as food poisoning.
The real scandal of the Harding Presidency was not the President's character or libido but his incompetence. He was nominated for the highest office in the land not because of past performance or potential for leadership but because he looked the part. In almost every poll of Presidential performance, including those conducted by Arthur Schlesinger in 1948 and his son Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in 1996, Warren G. Harding has ranked last. Even his best and most sympathetic biographer, Robert K. Murray, in ''The Harding Era'' (1969), had to conclude that the man should never have been President.......... By David Nasaw
Published: August 02, 1998
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
The women behind themen What do the Marriages of the Candidates have to Say
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