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...most persuasive defense offered by Connecticut's Thomas Dodd in fighting Senate censure was that his colleagues judged him by standards that are unwritten and unresolved. Having rejected that argument by condemning Dodd, the Senate nonetheless is under considerable public pressure to produce an ethics code that provides explicit guidelines for members' behavior-and to do it soon. "Such a code is mandatory," says Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. "We all suffered." Predicts perennial Watchdog John Williams of Delaware: "We'll do it before we go home." Many Senators realize that the Dodd affair and other cases have...
Inside Joke. Yet Bennett, senior Republican on the Standards and Conduct Committee, which investigated Dodd and which must now draft a code, maintains that it is "a terribly difficult assignment. I'm not even sure that it's possible." History supports his skepticism. Previous scandals, while firing reformist zeal, have resulted in little action. The Senate ethics committee itself is a monument to congressional distaste for self-regulation. Created by a 1964 resolution, the committee had no members for a full year and was virtually moribund until the Dodd investigation. The ten-point platitude adopted...
Evaporating Indignation? Then there is the question of uniformity in House and Senate rules. Acting admittedly in different circumstances, the House barred Adam Clayton Powell from membership, while Dodd retains both his seat and his seniority.*The Powell case prompted creation of a House ethics committee, which is also supposed to formulate a code of conduct. Mansfield thinks that "the Senate must go ahead on its own. Let the House tend to its own business." Republican Leader Everett Dirksen believes a common document should cover both Houses...
...Princefish." Probably the strangest aspect of the Dodd Affair was the havoc it wrought on the once-promising prospects of Russell Long. As chairman of the powerful Finance Committee and Senate Majority Whip, the "Princefish" (his father, the demagogic Huey, was the "Kingfish"), just a few short months ago had every reason to hope that he would follow Mike Mansfield as Majority Leader, perhaps even emerge one day as a vice-presidential candidate. But his wild rants and arrogant tactics in defense of Dodd-coming shortly after an equally bizarre defense of his discredited presidential-campaign financing bill-irrevocably alienated...
...Dodd, he seemed hardly to understand what had happened. "I truly don't believe," he said, "that I did anything wrong." At a press conference after his censure he declared that he felt compelled to run again in 1970 in order to "vindicate" his name. Meanwhile, both the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service are pursuing their own investigations of the Senator's financial nexus...