They have a girl, Amy, and two grandchildren. He is a registered Democrat and living in Chevy Chase, Maryland. In he relocated to Washington in D. Kennedy in Shields managed or worked around the country for 11 years for many democratic political campaigns.
He was a unionized columnist one year later and soon started working on the radio and giving nightly analysis on the Look at Today American Broadcasting Company. Mark Shields is also not active on social media platforms. He has made such a quantity of wealth from his primary profession as Journalist. Sign in. Forgot your password? Get help. One group, consisting of Agents May, Skye, Hunter, and Triplett, would go to Canada to help the Koenig brothers in protecting Raina , while the other, consisting of Agents Morse, Mackenzie, Fitz, and Simmons, and which he himself would lead, would go to Puerto Rico to look for the city.
Grant Ward boards the Bus. Once the plane with Ward, Raina, and Skye departed, the remaining quinjets tried to destroy the Bus, but May managed to pilot the plane to safety.
When Mackenzie got down there, he was possessed by some invisible force. When he was hoisted up, he attacked his colleagues and Morse electrocuted him. He then fell back into the the shaft. Bobbi Morse and Lance Hunter in the theater.
The agents successfully infiltrated the theater, attacking and killing several HYDRA operatives, including their leader, Daniel Whitehall. However, when they entered the Kree City, planing to destroy it, Agent Skye entered the temple in the center of the city. Agent Triplett defused the bombs, but later died while trying to save Skye from the mysterious substance that engulfed her in a cocoon. As the temple started shaking from an earthquake, Coulson found and saved Mack, bringing him back to the surface.
Skye is put into quarantine. Upon the return from the Kree City, Skye was quarantined in the Playground in order to see if she harbored any ill effects from her time underground. They were attacked by a humanoid creature that turned out to be a transformed Raina. Simmons hit Raina several times, but she escaped.
Phil Coulson makes a deal with Glenn Talbot. Unbeknownst to Bakshi, they planned to organize a fake escape to see where Bakshi would go. With this Octavian Bloom ordered the other leaders killed. Bloom was then promptly shot and killed and Bakshi was recaptured by Agents Hunter and Morse. When the Asgardian warrior Lady Sif appeared in Portugal , Coulson and a few agents traveled there to find out what was she doing on Earth.
To their surprise, she did not recognize them. Soon they discovered she was following a dangerous man, who turned out to be an extraterrestrial just like Sif. Melinda May attempts to protect Skye.
Back in the Playground, the stranger revealed himself as a Kree called Vin-Tak. As a sign of good faith, he used his Truncheon to restore Sif's memories, and they questioned Skye about what happened in the temple. When the base started shaking they realized Raina wasn't the only Inhuman activated that day. Later, when Lance Hunter confronted Mackenzie and demanded full disclosure about his secret mission with Morse, Mackenzie knocked him unconscious.
Safe House where he left him locked and handcuffed. Andrew Garner is recruited to help Skye. Coulson then asked May to request the help of Andrew Garner , her ex-husband. May brought Garner to the Playground and he boarded the Bus where Skye had made a residence. Melinda May threatens Skye.
One dangerous patient, David Angar , was freed from the facility by Skye's father, Calvin Zabo , and his team of enhanced people from the Index.
Coulson and Morse then followed Zabo to Manitowoc , Wisconsin. At the high school stadium, Coulson was surrounded by members of Zabo's team, when May arrived with Skye at gunpoint. Suddenly, an unknown eyeless man appeared and teleported Zabo away. Coulson and his agents then easily defeated Zabo's teammates. Robert Gonzales meets Lance Hunter. Mackenzie brought Hunter onboard the Iliad , revealing that his loyalty lies with "the real S.
Gonzales explained to Hunter that they saw Coulson and his erratic behavior as a threat that needs to be neutralized, and tried to convince Hunter to join them. Skye is brought to the Retreat. In the meantime, Coulson decided to pull Skye from active duty. After giving Skye special gloves made by Jemma Simmons and designed to help suppress her abilities, Coulson asked her to take some time to learn to control her powers.
Bobbi Morse suggests attacking S. That night on the Iliad , though Morse tried to convince him to join them, Hunter rejected Gonzales' offer and stole an escape pod, escaping from the ship. At the meeting of the leaders, Morse decided it was time to attack Coulson's S.
In the Playground, after the video conversation with General Glenn Talbot who informed them about Grant Ward and Agent 33 breaking into his base to free Sunil Bakshi , both Coulson and May noticed that Mackenzie was hiding something.
Melinda May catches Bobbi Morse. The next day, both Morse and Mazkenzie were in the Playground, still searching for the Toolbox. Morse then called Gonzales and he ordered the attack.
A gas began pumping through the Playground's vents, knocking out Coulson and all of his agents, while Gonzales' men entered the base, quickly taking complete control of it. Robert Gonzales speaks with Phil Coulson. Once the base was captured and all of Coulson's agents were apprehended with the exception of Melinda May, Gonzales called for Coulson to be brought to him.
Gonzales greeted Coulson and they exchanged pleasantries for a short period, until Coulson revealed that he knew exactly who Gonzales was and his history with working for S. Gonzales explained his own knowledge of Coulson, expressing his concerns over Coulson's recovery with the help of alien blood and Skye's new powers. Gonzales revealed that he needed Coulson to show him how to open the Toolbox. Coulson refused to open the Toolbox for Gonzales, who gave it to one of his agents to give to Anne Weaver.
Suddenly, Melinda May entered the office, knocking out Gonzales and two of his agents with an I. Coulson then escaped from the base via the secret elevator while May stayed behind and surrendered to Gonzales' agents. Skye uses her powers on Tomas Calderon. Before she surrendered, May had just enough time to call Skye at the Retreat and warn her about S. Just when Skye tried to leave the area around the cabin, a group of agents led by Bobbi Morse and Tomas Calderon arrived.
When Skye managed to knock down one agent, Agent Calderon fired a bullet at her, and she lost control of her powers, creating a pulse that sent the attackers flying back and obliterating the nearby trees. The same eyeless man that kidnapped Skye's father a few days earlier suddenly appeared, and teleported Skye away.
Later, Coulson met Hunter at the bar on a tropical beach and Hunter accepted his offer to become a full-time S. Robert Gonzales speaks with Fitz Simmons. Since Gonzales was still following S. However, that wasn't true for Melinda May, who was locked in Vault D. When Gonzales visited May, he tried to convince her into seeing things his way about the enhanced persons and Coulson, but May told him that S.
Mike Peterson assists Phil Coulson. Meanwhile, Coulson and Hunter arrived at the Retreat in a stolen jeep. Watching the security footage, they saw what Skye did the night before. The next morning, Coulson deliberately activated the silent alarm, which was immediately noticed by Gonzales and Morse in the Playground. Using the holograms inside the cabin, Coulson and Hunter managed to distract Gonzales' men long enough to knock down two of them and steal their uniforms.
However, they were eventually captured and brought into one of the agents' two Quinjets. Michael Peterson then suddenly entered the quinjet, liberating Coulson and Hunter and knocking down all the agents inside. He also prevented the other quinjet from flying off.
Robert Gonzales makes Melinda May an offer. Hearing the news about the failure of his men, Gonzales decided to try another tactic with Agent May. She was taken on the Iliad and Gonzales offered her a seat on his board, saying that Coulson should need someone who would defend him once he's captured.
He also gave her a gun to shoot him if she thought of him as a traitor to S. May gave him the gun back, not believing that the weapon was loaded, but Gonzales showed her that it was. Later, despite Mack's attempts to get him to stay, Fitz left the Playground. When he entered the taxi and looked through his bag, he found the Toolbox, which was hidden inside by Jemma when she made a copy to deceive Gonzales' men.
Alphonso Mackenzie explains his theory. Agent May eventually accepted Gonzales' offer and asked to take command of the Playground base, which was granted. Anne Weaver gave her their file on Coulson and what they called Theta Protocol. Back in the Playground, with Simmons' help, May found evidences that Coulson was operating a large number of shell corporations and burning through money.
Mackenzie explained that Coulson was probably building another base for powered individuals. May then ordered Simmons to open the Toolbox, unaware that the object in Simmons' possession was a replica. Meanwhile, followed by Gonzales' men, Leo Fitz ended up stuck in the restroom in a bar.
Using the Toolbox, he managed to contact Coulson and Hunter, who assured him everything would end just fine. Phil Coulson and Grant Ward in Mexico. They managed to capture Agent 33 , forcing Ward to have a talk with Coulson. Coulson and Ward then made a deal, Ward would help Coulson stop Strucker and List in their experiments on the enhanced people, and Coulson would let Ward got free, after he goes through the T. Phil Coulson and Grant Ward work together. Coulson and Ward then organized a meeting between the brainwashed Sunil Bakshi and List.
Peterson went with Bakshi to List's plane, playing his bodyguard. List explained to Bakshi that he was following "quantum entanglements" that could come from an enhanced individual, a teleporter.
Deathlok fights Lincoln Campbell. Though they managed to kill some of them, Hunter was wounded, and Bakshi apparently broke out of Ward's mental control, ordering his men to fire on Peterson, who managed to knock out an unknown man.
When Coulson encountered Skye and her father , the teleporter appeared and took Skye and her father away. Phil Coulson is taken in by S. Some time later, Bobbi Morse and Alphonso Mackenzie came to the building and Coulson showed himself to them, asking them to take him to their boss, Robert Gonzales.
Coulson's Team is reunited for a mission. Coulson was brought to the Playground , and he and Robert Gonzales had a discussion on the Bus. Though Gonzales didn't trust Coulson at first, they agreed to work together to save the enhanced people that HYDRA was experimenting on. Temporarily reassembled, Coulson's Team would infiltrate the facility and once the prisoners were rescued, Gonzales' men would bombard the place, destroying it.
Skye and Phil Coulson in Dr. List 's base. When they entered the base, they quickly disposed of most of HYDRA soldiers, mostly thanks to Sunil Bakshi , who was actually still under Ward's mental control. During the battle, Jemma Simmons tried to kill Ward, but Bakshi died instead. Doctor List managed to escape, but Mike Peterson and Lincoln Campbell were rescued and brought to the Playground, though Ward preferred to stay free and leave Agent 33 in the base.
Phil Coulson gives intel to Maria Hill. After the battle, Coulson gave Gonzales the Toolbox , only to inform him that a very much alive Nick Fury would probably want it back soon. Coulson then called Maria Hill and gave her intel gathered in List's base, including the info on Loki 's Scepter and its position.
The Helicarrier assists in the Battle of Sokovia. Thanks to Coulson's men keeping the Helicarrier No. During the battle , Fury and his men were able to save the inhabitants of Novi Grad before the flying city was destroyed.
Coulson then proposed that he and Gonzales join forces to build one S. Gonzales and his men eventually agreed, thus ending the conflict between the two factions. Suddenly, the mysterious teleporter and Raina appeared on the Iliad , and Lance Hunter set off the alarm. Phil Coulson and Gonzales saw Raina and Gordon through the security cameras, and Gonzales realized that they were looking for their special cargo. Just as the teleporter and Raina discovered the location of the cargo, Melinda May and Bobbi Morse found them, forcing them to teleport back to their base.
Later, at the Playground , Gonzales' people successfully found Afterlife. Robert Gonzales called for them to prepare for an attack, but Coulson convinced him that instead they should have a meeting with the Inhuman leader Jiaying and try and resolve the matter peacefully. The first move they chose to perform was sending Skye and Lincoln Campbell back to the Inhumans' base, so they could inform Jiaying about the arrival of S.
The two were teleported by Gordon back to Afterlife, and Skye convinced Jiaying to speak with Coulson. Back to the Playground, the council changed the plan by choosing Gonzales as the representative of S. Coulson agreed to stay in the Playground. As several S. Jiaying delivered to Gonzales Zabo as a first salvo towards peace. Robert Gonzales is killed by Jiaying. As Skye left the room so the ambassadors could talk, Gonzales explained to Jiaying that their only goal was to protect the population from powered individuals, so he asked her to put her people in the Index in case one of them would try to harm the public.
Jiaying showed him a crystal but she used it to release a mist that killed Gonzales. Simmons then informed Coulson and Weaver about the scenario and the announcement of Gonzales' death was spread. Although there were divided opinions whether Gonzales had shot or not, Coulson agreed that the security of the agents was the important part. But new problems were emerged, as a single Quintet fired two missiles at a house, what made Skye and the other Inhumans to believe that S.
Bobbi Morse is tortured by Grant Ward. This action caused Agent 33 be brainwashed. Morse didn't show any regret, so Ward tied Morse back to a chair and rigged a rifle behind her. Ward explained that he would make her to watch as someone else was killed while attempting to save her. He told her that the rifle was set to fire at the doorway when someone opened it, killing them instantly in front of her eyes. Phil Coulson questions Calvin Zabo. In the Playground , Coulson discovered that Jiaying killed Gonzales and orchestrated the attack of S.
While Calvin Zabo was locked up in Vault D, Coulson presented him all the facts that Jiaying wanted to start a war and she was using him, just like when she used him to kill all the people in the village in Hunan province. Coulson also said that she had probably ordered him to take his formula that was killing him.
Zabo said that he took it so he could have the power to kill every agent he can. Coulson continued to argue with Zabo about the true nature of Jiaying, until Zabo got a heart attack. Zabo was brought to the lab, where Jemma Simmons injected adrenaline.
The material transformed him to a powerful monster. Coulson wanted to talk in reason with him, so Simmons and Fitz led him to the hangar where Coulson captured him and started talking with him. During that time, a group of Inhumans led by Gordon took control on the Iliad , killed and captured most of the agents on the ship. Only Alphonso Mackenzie was left to fight them.
Anne Weaver sent to Coulson a message and asked for his help. After the hijack succeed, Jiaying was welcome aboard and said that they will start the next step. Alphonso Mackenzie defending the Iliad. Eventually, Coulson and Zabo agreed they should work together to save Skye from Jiaying. Meanwhile, Mackenzie freed Skye from her cell in the Iliad , and asked for her hacking skills.
In the Command Room of the ship, Jiaying ordered her men to take a case of Terrigen Crystals to the ventilation room and the rest to the Quinjet.
Lincoln Campbell then entered, saying that a emergency beacon had been sent to Coulson's base. Jiaying kills Oliver with a Terrigen Crystal. Jiaying asked Anne Weaver and Oliver if they could expand the beacon. The two refused, and Jiaying used a Crystal to kill Oliver. Once she saw Oliver, Weaver agreed to do her bidding. Skye and Mackenzie watched the event and realized that Jiaying's plan was to kill every S. In the Playground, where Zabo was stabilized, Leo Fitz informed Coulson that the emergency beacon from the ship came.
Coulson said to him that they would need every available agent they had to shut the Inhumans down. Lance Hunter searches for Bobbi Morse. Hunter found Morse bleeding after she saved him from a rigged rifle shot. May tricked Ward and used him to kill Agent They then flew to the Playground to save Morse's life.
Fitz then informed Coulson he had created a device that could make Gordon stay in a single location and not teleport. Coulson told him that there were Quinjets all over the world which flew to answer with them to the emergency beacon.
May and Hunter returned with Morse to the base and Simmons started to operate on her. Calvin Zabo agrees to work with S. When the squadron of Quinjets flew to the Iliad , Coulson, May, Fitz and Zabo, who were in the lead Quinjet, received a message from Skye, saying that they were entering a trap. Coulson then ordered the other Quinjets to fall back, but his Quinjet continued with the plan.
As they landed on the ship, they received another message from Skye, warning them of the Terrgin Crystals. Zabo then realized Jiaying's plan and explained it to them. Despite the risks, the S. Phil Coulson arm is cut off. Mackenzie protected the Crystals in the ventilation room while Gordon attempted to reach them.
Meanwhile, Skye fought Alisha and her duplicates. Coulson and Fitz then joined Mackenzie in his battle, with Fitz placing the device that would hinder Gordon.
The device kept Gordon in the room, and he teleported onto a pole Fitz was holding, impaling himself. However, as he died, he dropped a Crystal with Coulson instinctively caught. As his arm petrified, Mackenzie used his axe to cut it off. Jiaying is killed by Calvin Zabo. Skye then found her mother entering the Terrigen Crystal-laden Quinjet to finish her plan of dropping the Crystals and killing non-Inhumans.
The two women fought each other, each using her powers to overcome the other. Skye gathered one burst of energy and blasted the Quinjet into the ocean, ruining Jiaying's plan. As Jiaying tried to kill her daughter, Zabo appeared and broke the two apart, killing Jiaying to spare Skye the pain of killing her own mother. The human race was saved and the Inhuman threat was no more.
Phil Coulson explains changes to S. With the Inhuman threat eliminated, Phil Coulson returned to work and began planning out new ways of dealing with threats against the earth, employing his S. He brought Andrew Garner back to assess his team and judge their readiness to continue working in the field. They discussed having Alphonso Mackenzie back on the team in charge of all alien dealings before Coulson teased Garner about getting back together with Melinda May , who took time off as an agent.
Garner then handed Coulson a file of his recommendation for Coulson's new program. Project T. Coulson put the order in for Calvin Zabo to go through the T. Program , allowing him to begin a new, peaceful life as a vet named Dr. Coulson joined Skye as she went to visit Zabo at his new office before asking Skye about her thoughts on leading a new team for people with powers, where they could use their abilities to help protect the world.
Skye insisted that if they did this, the team should be kept a secret so the people involved could still live their own private lives. Coulson agreed, noting that his missing arm would be his personal reminder of S.
Bobbi Morse recovered from the operation and talked with Lance Hunter , saying she could not do it anymore. Jemma Simmons later was swallowed by the Monolith. The agency tried to find where Hulk was by tracking down the Avengers Quinjet he used to escape Sokovia. The information was given to Nick Fury. However, they were unable to track down the pills that were already bought, and at least five individuals managed to take them before S.
Phil Coulson appointed Skye, who now was going with her birth name Daisy Johnson , and Alphonso Mackenzie to track the Inhumans and get to them before the mysterious organization could with the help of their new plane, Zephyr One. At the same time, S. However, Leo Fitz refused to believe that and he went on a search across the world to prove Simmons was still alive. While Fitz went to different locations in the world, Bobbi Morse covered his assignments in the Playground.
Lance Hunter was planning revenge on Grant Ward for what he had done to Morse. He possessed the power of melting every metal. The Advanced Threat Containment Unit quickly showed up to arrest him but he managed to escape them. After the fight, Phil Coulson took a picture of who he assumed was the leader of the unit. Leo Fitz 's mission to save Jemma Simmons. In the Playground , Johnson explained to Gutierrez what had happened to him and that his life could not be normal anymore.
Coulson discovered that the woman he pictured had many identities and worked for many agencies. Meanwhile, Leo Fitz went to Morocco to retrieve an old parchment that describe exactly what the Monolith was so he could know how to save Jemma Simmons. He tricked Yusef Hadad to give him the parchment and he then returned to the base. Phil Coulson speaks with Rosalind Price.
Johnson and Mackenzie went to see Lincoln Campbell to ask him to help Gutierrez adapt to the change he had experienced. Coulson and Hunter went to meet the leader of the Advanced Threat Containment Unit in a subway train but entered into an ambush.
Rosalind Price revealed to Coulson that she knew that she had been killed and came back to life in Project T. She also thought that S. She asked him then who had killed them. In the hospital where Campbell worked, Johnson asked for his help, but he refused, saying that being Inhuman was a curse and he just wanted to have a normal life. To the hospital came an monstrous man who was looking for Campbell. The three fought against him.
He ultimately escaped and the three as well after the ATCU came. As all the S. He explained that the Monolith was a portal to another world and Jemma Simmons must be there.
Coulson asked for Elliot Randolph 's help to understand the Monolith, while Johnson and Mack helped Andrew Garner 's assessment on Joey Gutierrez and Hunter went to his revenge campaigning against Grant Ward and he also recruited Melinda May for the mission.
Randolph led them to a room in an English castle where the Monolith could be opened and become a portal. Leo Fitz rescues Jemma Simmons. Mackenzie and Johnson brought the Monolith and after Fitz activated the machines of the room, the Monolith changed to his liquid form, but the machines broke and it changed back to solid. But Fitz had an idea that they could use Johnson power to change the Monolith to a portal. Johnson indeed opened it and Fitz jumped through it to search for Simmons, and so he did.
Simmons was brought to Earth and the Monolith was exploded. Phil Coulson meets Rosalind Price again. Campbell called for her for help and Johnson and Alphonso Mackenzie went to his location. Coulson arranged a meeting with Rosalind Price and the two met.
However, Campbell escaped, so Luther Banks ordered his soldiers to arrest Johnson. Coulson offered an alliance between S.
Pierce agreed and ordered her men to leave the place. A recruit mission for the Caterpillars program was interrupted by the monstrous man. They entered the house together and found Frye hiding. Finally to the loyal viewers of the NewsHour who have regularly informed, corrected, and encouraged me, thank you.
We will all miss him terribly and look forward to any future bits of wisdom he wants to drop by to share. The audience, and certainly all of the staff, will miss his Friday night analysis and wisdom.
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William Proxmire in Shields went on to hold leadership positions in three other presidential campaigns, and over 11 years, helped to manage campaigns up and down the ballot in more than three dozen states. In , he became an editorial writer at The Washington Post and began his column, which is distributed nationally today by Creators Syndicate. Shields started as an editorial writer at The Washington Post in , after a career working as a legislative assistant and speechwriter for Senator William Proxmire and later on the presidential campaign of Robert Kennedy.
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