So if you're running for president in 2016, you probably have to start laying the groundwork now, right?
Can you imagine we're even talking about this? It's mind-numbing that within 24 hours, people want to start talking about 2016.
I read that Ann Romney did not take the loss well. Obviously, your campaign didn't last as long, but was your family crushed?
They were down for a couple of days and a little angry for a while, but as they reflect on it, they loved every minute of it. Presidential campaigns result in one of two outcomes. It divides the family, sometimes irreparably or it makes you a whole lot closer. It made our family a whole lot closer.
All along, it was speculated that you would have been a formidable opponent for Obama, but you didn't have a prayer in the primaries. Do you think the Republican primary system is broken?
People aren't turning out for primaries because they work for a living, and those who do turn out are professional activists. Today, if you have somebody who ultimately gets through the obstacle course, they're going to lack the one ingredient in such need today: authenticity.
Republicans couldn't get over the fact that after you resigned as ambassador to China, you sent the president a thank-you note, referring to him as "a remarkable leader."
I wrote the note, and I'd write it again.
You never paused and thought, Hmm, how will people judge these words in the future?
No, because they were born of honesty.
Honesty? You're in the wrong business.
It's terrible. You saw where honesty got me in the primary.
Obviously you've thought a lot about it. What went wrong?
When the decision was made to refuse any pandering — because my wife would have left me if I had done any of that — you pretty much disarm yourself. On top of that you have people like Michael Moore, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter coming out and giving you kudos as a sane Republican. That doesn't play so well in the primary phase of Iowa or South Carolina.
The New York Times referred to you during the campaign as "an early favorite of the pundit classes." Did you read that and think, I'm toast?
That's the first dagger to the heart.
You also cooperated with a big Vogue profile with photographs by Annie Leibovitz. Didn't you anticipate that might smack too much of the cultural elite?
But who's going to turn down Annie Leibovitz? When she comes knocking, of course you're going to invite her in, and we did pay a price for that.
Your father, who has appeared on the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans, said that he wants to die broke after giving all his money to philanthropic causes. As an heir, are you bothered by this?
I didn't grow up with that, so it's not like you grow accustomed to it. My memories were of my father working for his uncles in the egg-distribution business. He'll be the first to tell you he doesn't deserve it, the rest of us don't deserve it, it's temporary, and it's there to do something good with before we die.
One of your first jobs was doing advance work for Ronald Reagan while he was president. Were there things that only Reagan needed that you knew only he would need?
Nancy.
Can you talk about that a little more?
She had her eye on President Reagan and wanted to make sure that he was always well served, and as such was an enormously important safeguard within the White House.
You dropped out of high school to play keyboards for a band called Wizard. Was the music better than the name of the band? Because, let's be honest, Wizard is not the best band name ever.
It was quintessential '70s progressive rock. We wrote our own stuff. It probably wouldn't hit the Top 20 today, no question about that.
You wore your hair long and played contemplative rock, but you've said you weren't a big dope smoker. Really?
That's right. I've never been much into vices.
INTERVIEW HAS BEEN CONDENSED AND EDITED.
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: January 4, 2013
An earlier version of the picture caption with this article online misspelled the subject's given name. He is Jon Huntsman, not John.
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