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I am struck the whole litany of people, especially of that era, who were involved in some scandal or another. Some of it was sexual. Some of it was more financial. And it was just all concentrated in a lot of people all at once.

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Mark Shields
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 25
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Weymouth
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