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GQ describes Kennedy as a man spoiled by excess.

For all his accomplishments, Senator Kennedy was an imperfect man, and an infamous 1990 profile from GQ reminds us why: “His hard public drinking, his obsessive public womanizing and his frequent boorishness.” Michael Kelly wrote, “Ted is the reality, the 57-year-old living picture of a man who has feasted on too much for too long with too little restraint, the visible proof that nothing exceeds like excess.”

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