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Whether it's her [ Hillary Clinton] guarded privacy or whatever else, I mean, there has got to be some sense that this is a human being that I can identify.

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