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Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

May 30, 2018

The last of Donald Trump’s predecessors to spend any serious time in La Malbaie, a resort town in the Charlevoix, Que., region, was William Howard Taft, whose Mar-a-Lago was an unpretentious summer residence

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