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...year history, the U.S. Senate has subjected its members to formal censure only six times prior to the Dodd case. The condemned and the causes of their disgrace...
...better part of nine days, Thomas Joseph Dodd had asked ever more plaintively for an end to the proceedings. "Don't drag me through any more," he implored. "Give me my rest either in sorrow or relief." Last week, as weary of the debate as Dodd himself, the Senate complied. It voted, 92 to 5, to censure the senior Senator from Connecticut for bringing the Senate into "dishonor and disrepute" by wrongfully taking $116,083 in campaign funds for his own use. He was only the seventh Senator in 178 years to be formally condemned by his colleagues...
...indictment was not greatly softened by the dismissal, 51 to 45, of a lesser count: that Dodd had double-billed both the Government and private groups for some $1,700 in travel expenses. Many Senators regarded that sum as picayune in comparison with the misappropriated campaign funds. Many others thought that he should have the benefit of the doubt on his contention that the double-billing was the result of sloppy bookkeeping, not dishonesty. The vote may also have been influenced by the contention of Dodd's self-appointed "defender," Louisiana's Russell Long, that if Tom Dodd...
...Senatorial Heep." On the main count there was never much doubt, and Long's marathon defense served only to turn a painful exercise into an unseemly ordeal that ended by depriving Dodd of even the last vestige of dignity. Often sentimental, Dodd eventually pleaded his cause with the mawkishness of a white-haired Uriah Heep. "How many times do you want to hang me?" he asked his colleagues. "If you want to do it, be done with it-be done with it! Do away with me, and that will be the end! But in the twilight of my life...
...aware of it. My life is at stake. I'm not asking much. All I want is a fair shake." For all his histrionics, only three Senators-Connecticut's Abraham Ribicoff, South Carolina's Strom Thurmond and Texas' John Tower-joined Long and Dodd in voting against censure...