Word: dodd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Well, it has indeed been a tedious Senate year. But Dodd's outburst was most unclubby, and his victims had to answer him when they got there-which was next day. An exchange of insults is rare in the Senate these days, and it was plain that there has been some decline in the art of invective...
...illustrate Dodd's charge, Mike Mansfield offered a kind, gentle, understanding, noble explanation of why things are slow at the Senate (everything is locked up in committees). He admitted that he himself is "dull and dreary" but insisted that he was not about to turn the Senate into a "Roman holiday or sideshow...
...Dirksen was in his most Vesuvian oratorical humor. Dodd's criticisms, he cried, amounted to "incoherencies." Noting that Dodd had not yet arrived on the floor, Dirksen said that "the brave crusader from the Nutmeg State on his white charger has great zeal for being here and getting on with business, and he is not here...
...Soon Dodd arrived to detail his complaints. "I do not believe a similar situation can be found in the entire history of the Senate," he said. "The whole Senate seems to be pervaded by a spirit of lethargy...
Based on the record of the 1963 Senate so far, Dodd had a point, but Dirksen still felt mortally wounded. "Mr. President," he cried, "I would be the last Senator ever to use the Senate chamber for a glorified wailing wall." It so happens, said Dirksen, that he and many others have a lot of chores to keep them busy. But "it may be that the distinguished Senator from the Nutmeg State does not have anything to do in his office." And if Dodd wanted an answer to his complaint about Senate inaction, Dirksen shouted, "I will answer the distinguished...