"I served in government, but I didn't inhale. I'm still a business guy," Mitt Romney told the Conservative Political Action Conference today, The Ticket reported. Billing himself as the only candidate who never served a day in Washington, Romney claims an advantage for having no old scores to settle or cloakroom deals to defend.
Where have Americans heard this before?
George W. Bush
George W. Bush had no national political experience on assuming the presidency. He ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1978, according to a Miller Center profile. He served two terms as Texas governor before being elected to the presidency. Bush served two terms as president.
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton lost a congressional bid in 1974, then was elected Arkansas attorney general in 1976. From there, he launched a successful gubernatorial campaign, serving as Arkansas governor for two discontinuous terms. He was elected president in 1992 and re-elected four years later.
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California in 1966 and re-elected in 1970. Reagan made an unsuccessful bid for the presidency in 1976, losing in the primary to incumbent Gerald Ford. In 1980, Reagan tried again and succeeded. Reagan was re-elected in 1984.
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter was elected to local civic boards and two Georgia senate terms before making an unsuccessful gubernatorial bid in 1966. In 1970, he was elected governor. Carter ran for president in 1976 in Watergate's aftermath, using his Washington outsider status to advantage, the Miller Center noted. Carter served one term, losing to Reagan in 1980.
Dwight Eisenhower
Eisenhower served as supreme commander of NATO forces and Columbia University president but had never held elective, political office before becoming president. Fellow Republicans urged him to run for president in 1952, the White House website recounts, and he won that election and a second term.
Recent Presidents with Pre-Presidency Washington Experience
* Barack Obama served a term in Congress before his election to the presidency.
* George H. W. Bush served two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and eight years as vice president before becoming president.
* Gerald R. Ford was a 24-year congressman before stepping into the presidential role. He was appointed to the vice presidency under Richard Nixon when Spiro Agnew resigned due to a scandal. When Nixon himself resigned, Ford became president without having been elected to the position.
* Nixon served in Congress, the Senate and as vice president before his 1968 election to the presidency.
* Lyndon B. Johnson served in the House of Representatives and the Senate. John F. Kennedy selected him as a running mate in 1960 and, as vice president, he assumed the presidency on Kennedy's death. In 1964 he ran for re-election and won.
* John F. Kennedy served in the House from 1947 to 1953, and the Senate from 1953 to 1961. He won the presidential election of 1960.
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