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All his life he [Robert Kennedy] had been schooled that nothing was worse than to finish second. But crushing fears are no longer so crushing once they are experienced.

Jack Newfield

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Jack Newfield
Age: 66 †
Born: 1938
Born: February 18
Died: 2004
Died: December 20
Journalist
New York City
New York
Jack Abraham Newfield
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