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Mitt Romney picks former Utah governor Mike Leavitt to lead transition team

By Callum Borchers

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  June 03, 2012

Mike Leavitt, the former governor of Utah and health and human services secretary under President George W. Bush, has been charged with leading presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s transition team. Leavitt is a low-profile campaign adviser to Romney, and the two have been close since Leavitt, as governor, courted Romney to run the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Leavitt, 61, and Romney, 65, have much in common: They are Mormons, businessmen and former governors.

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