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...August 1964 Klein sent Dodd the draft of a letter that he wanted dispatched-over Dodd's signature-to Dr. Ludger Westrick, an aide to Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and a key figure in the dispute about the continuation of Klein's contracts. "Please destroy this letter," Klein added. "I made no copy." Dodd duly sent Westrick the missive, which oozed polysaturated praise of Klein in Klein's own words ("He has the confidence of my Democratic and Republican colleagues and is especially close to our leaders"), but preserved copies of the correspondence because he saw nothing "sinister...
...Destroy This Letter." It was this collection of Klein-Dodd letters that disaffected aides had removed, copied and fed to Columnists Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson. Their series of articles accusing the Senator led to the investigation (TIME, July 1). One abrasive letter from Klein in November 1963 upbraided the Senator for not rising to his defense during an investigation of foreign lobbying by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, of which Dodd is a member. "What are you afraid of?" demanded Klein. "Do you consider friendship a one-way street...
...ashamed of you." Dodd did his best to placate the lobbyist, who returned to the offensive with repeated, sometimes brusque requests that the Senator help him to overcome German doubts about renewing Klein's lucrative public relations contracts...
...Ashamed." Dodd explained under interrogation that he had relayed the letters almost verbatim because he was "hurried or harried," and in any case agreed with Klein's view of Klein. The Senator also believed that Klein had been unfairly characterized in the German press as being on trial during the Foreign Relations Committee investigation. Before Dodd went to Germany in April 1964, he was admittedly "anxious to do anything I could" to set Klein's record straight. Yet Dodd insisted that he did not make the trip as an "advocate or agent" for the lobbyist...
...charges that such solicitude in behalf of Klein did not go unrewarded, Dodd denied that he had ever received anything "of value" from Klein-apart from campaign contributions, the amount of which Dodd could not recall. Dodd also conceded that he stayed in the lobbyist's unoccupied suite at New York City's Essex House "five or six or seven, eight times a year" from 1962 through 1965. But then other friends had also given Dodd free lodging in New York, he volunteered, explaining: "I am not a rich man. I am not ashamed of it. I wish...