He made it to Washington after all — but not as president of the United States, the office he sought twice and other men won. He’s not yet a senator from Utah, either, until he’s sworn in Jan. 3. Romney, lifelong executive in public and private life, doesn’t have a permanent office, a place to live or a solid sense of what it will be like to shift from being the top leader to just one of 100 ambitious personalities.
For now, Romney, 71, is acclimating to the rarified Senate, where he's shuttling between his temporary basement office and meetings, little-noticed in the brimming corridors of power where seniority and tradition rule.