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The Democrats have to do what he did when [Rahm Emanuel] was chairman of the Democratic House Campaign Committee, recruit veterans, recruit football players, recruit business people. And I think that's what the job of the new party chair has to be.

Mark Shields

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