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Leonard Volk

A Frightful Ordeal and a Ravaged Face

By Kimberly | 27 August 2020

Pundits often remark on how quickly presidents age while in office. The effect of four years or eight years of extraordinarily hard work and continual worry, not to mention fierce criticism from all sides, tends to transform a youthful, determined politician into an aged man.

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