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...career as an FBI agent, a war crimes prosecutor and, currently, a U.S. Senator, Thomas Dodd has ridden out countless investigations on the tallyho end of the chase. Last week the Connecticut Democrat was cast in the quar ry's role, his political future staked on the outcome, as the Senate Select Committee on Standards and Conduct delved deeply and publicly into his affairs...
...Serious Wrongdoing." Dodd's chief accuser was not an ethics-committee member or political enemy but a former aide of twelve years' standing, James P. Boyd Jr., 37, who said he found it "painful" to turn on his mentor. How ever, Boyd testified, he and three other disaffected members of Dodd's staff-the Senator's secretary, Marjorie Carpenter; his office manager-bookkeeper, Michael O'Hare; and an office worker, Terry Golden - came to believe that Dodd was guilty of "serious wrongdoing" and felt "a definite obligation to inform the public and the authorities...
Concatenation of Cumshaw. Dodd's affairs have become the Dodd affair because of a muckraking series of articles by Columnists Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson. On the basis of files fed to them by at least one disgruntled former assistant to Dodd, they charged that the white-haired, square-jawed former FBI agent accepted a concatenation of cumshaw from all manner of individuals and companies seeking official favors from him. The payola, claimed the columnists, included a sapphire ring for his wife, a television set for his office, shoes for some of his family, carpeting for his house...
...Klein, a popular man-about-politics, the columnists said he gave Dodd "expensive gifts" and rent-free use of his New York apartment. In exchange, they charged, Dodd delivered
...American Way." The roughest of the Pearson-Anderson series came in March and April, when the columnists accused Dodd of diverting to his personal use more than $100,000 raised at testimonial dinners in 1961 and 1963, at which then Vice President Lyndon Johnson was the guest of honor. Later, it developed there was a third dinner last year featuring Vice President Hubert Humphrey. Under persistent badgering from the press, the IRS said that such income was tax-free-even if not spent on legitimate campaign purposes -provided that the donors intended the money as personal presents rather than campaign...