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...recover from last November's drubbing, and in many ways are still spiraling downward amid internal strife and organizational turmoil. Worse, the party has yet to articulate a coherent message. At a New York City luncheon of the party's top contributors earlier this year, Democratic Party chairman Christopher Dodd was asked pointedly, "What does the Democratic Party stand for?" Dodd's hemming and hawing did not satisfy the crowd. "It soon became apparent that he didn't have the answer," recalls Gary Hindes, a bond broker and chairman of the Democratic Party of Delaware...
...investors wearing, according to Herzog in his book Vesco, "a double-breasted suit, a homburg, and gloves" on a hot summer day. He would then say, "If my chauffeur calls, tell him to circle the block if he has to." The chauffeur in question was his plant manager, Ralph Dodd. Vesco liked to say he graduated from Wayne State University, although there is no record of his enrolling there. But he had such self-possession that people believed his stories and went along with his boasts. He was an untiring gambler, though he won and lost with bad grace...
...Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.), the leader of the Democratic Party, will undoubtedly see the merits of a Gore campaign. Another relatively young but still senior politician, Dodd and Gore could found a new Democratic guard. If the Republicans' slashing of social programs accomplishes one thing, it will bring more Democrats to the polls in 1996. A nation sufficiently repulsed by two years of cruel regressivity will once again stand ready to embrace a new, liberal mandate...
...Mambo Kings"), starts out looking like a nearly step-by-step rip-off of "True Believer," where James Woods plays a lawyer trying to free a man who has spent eight years in Ossining ('Sing Sing') for a murder he didn't commit. In "Just Cause," James Woods' Eddie Dodd, a washed-up, 1960s hippie lawyer is replaced by Sean Connery's Paul Armstrong, a lawyer-turned-Harvard professor. Neither of the men has tried a murder case in a number of years, both are reluctant to take...
Robinson's efforts compelled democratic Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) and Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) to tightenthe trade embargo against Haiti and reverse therefugee policy...