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An Affair To Remember

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After three decades, BARBARA WALTERS has come clean about her deepest secret: for several years in the 1970s, she conducted an affair with married U.S. Senator EDWARD BROOKE — who at the time was the first African-American Senator elected since Reconstruction. Brooke, whom Walters remembers as "brilliant" and "exciting," has declined to comment.

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