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Mitt Romney regains protection, self-assurance from cloak of Secret Service

By Glen Johnson

 |  Globe Staff  

  February 03, 2012

Mitt Romney donned a cloak of Secret Service protection yesterday that, for all intents and purposes, he may never take off. As a Republican presidential frontrunner, his fund-raising and delegate count qualified him for security from the same government agency that protects the person he hopes to oust from office, President Obama. For Romney, it doesn’t just signal his arrival as a presidential contender; it harkens back to a way of life in which he was most comfortable as Massachusetts governor.

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