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The Boston Globe reports that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will visit Iowa in March to promote his latest book.
Romney, who finished second in the hotly contested 2008 Iowa Caucuses and is widely believed to be laying the groundwork for another presidential run in 2012, will hold a noon book signing at Des Moines’ Central Library on Monday March 29 before heading to Ames for a 6 p.m. speech at Iowa State University.
From the Globe:
“No Apology’’ will be Romney’s second book. The first, “Turnaround: Crisis, Leadership, and the Olympic Games,’’ a narrative account of Romney’s stewardship of the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City, was published in 2004, while he was governor. At the time, Romney held a book party at the Boston Public Library, signings in Massachusetts and Utah, and conducted a series of radio interviews.
This time Romney has assembled a far more ambitious itinerary, organized by his publisher, St. Martin’s Press, and the Macmillan Speakers Bureau, which represents Romney in speeches before nonpolitical groups. In Iowa, Romney will visit Des Moines and Ames, where he will speak at Iowa State University. (Romney has yet to confirm appearances in New Hampshire and South Carolina, two other early primary states.)
Numerous potential Republican presidential candidates have already made trips to Iowa, including former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, and Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty.
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