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How Mitt describes it:
he gave a rare account of his two and a half years from July 1966 as a missionary in France, which he described as "not exactly a Third World country".
He was forced to live off $110 a month. "So, I lived in a way that people of lower-middle income in France lived," he said.
Explaining that he often had no working lavatory, Mr Romney said: "We had instead the little pads on the ground There was a chain behind you with a bucket. “You’re not living high on the hog at that kind of level,” he said. ".
In his remarks this week, Mr Romney said of his French lodgings: “I don’t recall any of them having a refrigerator. We shopped before every meal”.
Here is how others described Romney's living conditions.
Although he spent time in other French cities, for most of 1968, Mr Romney lived in the Mission Home, a 19th century neoclassical building in the French capital’s chic 16th arrondissement. “It was a house built by and for rich people,” said Richard Anderson, the son of the mission president at the time of Mr Romney’s stay. “I would describe it as a palace”.
Tearful as he described the house, Mr Anderson, 70, of Kaysville, Utah, said Romney aides had asked him not to speak publicly about their time together there.
“They were very big rooms,” said Christian Euvrard, the 72-year-old director of the Mormon-run Institute of Religion in Paris, who knew Mr Romney. “Very comfortable. The building had beautiful gilded interiors, a magnificent staircase in cast iron, and an immense hall.”
It was “well equipped” with all modern conveniences, including a combination washer-dryer machine, Mr Anderson said. “I never saw anything like it in another private home at that time.”
Mr Anderson said that as well as a refrigerator, the mansion had “a Spanish chef called Pardo and a house boy, who prepared lunch and supper five days a week”.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...r-Mormon-missionary-in-France-questioned.html
he gave a rare account of his two and a half years from July 1966 as a missionary in France, which he described as "not exactly a Third World country".
He was forced to live off $110 a month. "So, I lived in a way that people of lower-middle income in France lived," he said.
Explaining that he often had no working lavatory, Mr Romney said: "We had instead the little pads on the ground There was a chain behind you with a bucket. “You’re not living high on the hog at that kind of level,” he said. ".
In his remarks this week, Mr Romney said of his French lodgings: “I don’t recall any of them having a refrigerator. We shopped before every meal”.
Here is how others described Romney's living conditions.
Although he spent time in other French cities, for most of 1968, Mr Romney lived in the Mission Home, a 19th century neoclassical building in the French capital’s chic 16th arrondissement. “It was a house built by and for rich people,” said Richard Anderson, the son of the mission president at the time of Mr Romney’s stay. “I would describe it as a palace”.
Tearful as he described the house, Mr Anderson, 70, of Kaysville, Utah, said Romney aides had asked him not to speak publicly about their time together there.
“They were very big rooms,” said Christian Euvrard, the 72-year-old director of the Mormon-run Institute of Religion in Paris, who knew Mr Romney. “Very comfortable. The building had beautiful gilded interiors, a magnificent staircase in cast iron, and an immense hall.”
It was “well equipped” with all modern conveniences, including a combination washer-dryer machine, Mr Anderson said. “I never saw anything like it in another private home at that time.”
Mr Anderson said that as well as a refrigerator, the mansion had “a Spanish chef called Pardo and a house boy, who prepared lunch and supper five days a week”.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...r-Mormon-missionary-in-France-questioned.html
