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3. She was a "liberal Republican," a creature long extinct...
Tue May 23, 2017, 07:19 AM
May 2017

Back when there actually was such a thing.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/movies/dina-merrill-dead-actress-and-heiress.amp.html
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With an inheritance from her parents estimated at more than $50 million, Ms. Merrill became a philanthropist. A liberal Republican, she was vice chairwoman of the Republican Pro-Choice Coalition, an advocate on women’s health issues and vice president of the New York Mission Society. After her son David, who had diabetes, died in a boating accident at age 23 in 1973, Ms. Merrill created a yearly award for scientific excellence in his name for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
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