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Presidents tend to tinker, you know, and mess everything up.

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Pat Paulsen
Age: 69 †
Born: 1927
Born: July 6
Died: 1997
Died: April 24
Actor
Comedian
South Bend
Washington
Patrick Layton Paulsen
Tinker
Presidents
Mess
Tend
President
Everything

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