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...Dodd even rounded on the ethics committee, which was well intentioned, he allowed, but judging him "completely on the basis of nonexistent standards." Dodd clearly scored points, forcing his opposition to work harder than it had anticipated. A vote had been expected last week, but Dodd obtained a weekend extension in which to prepare still further arguments...
...hardly seemed an even contest. There was Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, backed by a reputation for judicial probity and five fellow members of the Committee on Standards and Conduct, demanding the censure of Connecticut Democrat Thomas Dodd for perpetrating "a grievous wrong" against the entire Senate. And there was Dodd, his name sullied by 18 months of accusation and investigation, his own records and statements hurled as weapons against him, his only asset an instinct for political survival...
...four days on the Senate floor last week, the Connecticut Democrat fought doggedly and at times eloquently to prove "my honesty and my honor." In defense of what Dodd called "these marks of my manhood," he cried out to his peers and judges: "I am telling you the truth and concealing nothing! May the vengeance of God strike me if I am doing otherwise...
...Character Assassins." Dodd portrayed himself as the aggrieved party rather than the offender. The Senator depicted four former staff members, who started his ordeal by stealing his private records and passing them to Columnists Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson, as victims of a "pathological desire for vengeance." He branded the columnists as "the most unscrupulous character assassins ever spawned by the American press." No doubt this argument had its effect, for hardly any Senator would relish having his employees hand private documents from his files to a pair of muckrakers...
...suspicions thus raised about Ed Long deepened the gloom of a Senate already embarrassed by the case of Connecticut's Tom Dodd, by the vulgar performance of the other Long, Russell, who stalled legislative proceedings for five weeks over the tax-endowed campaign-fund act, and by the scandal of Adam Clayton Powell on the other side of the Hill...