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On the extracurricular front, George H. W. had his dalliances while he was vice president, and even before, when he was a congressman: "He chose his other involvements carefully (usually out of town) so as not to threaten his marriage. Then along came Jennifer Fitzgerald, who became his secretary and became so much more."
The long drawn-out affair caused his wife Barbara to leave him for three months (he was then US ambassador to China), burn her letters, and to suffer severe depression almost to the point of suicide.
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