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Died. Thomas J. Dodd, 64, the only U.S. Senator ever to be formally censured by his colleagues for financial misdeeds; of a heart attack; in Old Lyme, Conn. Before scandal ruined his career, the Connecticut Democrat had a reputation as a tough, responsible prosecutor and investigator. He served a brief tour as an FBI agent after earning a law degree at Yale, later helped convict Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg. In 1958, Dodd won the first of his two Senate terms and soon zeroed in on subversives from his post on the Internal Security Subcommittee. He was a longtime champion...
Still, the letter, along with Scott's appeal for party loyalty, carried the day. The Senate voted 58 to 34 to override, four shy of the required two-thirds majority. Only six Democrats voted with Nixon, all Southerners except for Connecticut's Thomas Dodd. Nine liberal Republicans voted against the President...
...effort turned the election around. "We emphasized the peace issue," he said. "The whole secret of any campaign is to talk about your issue. The peace issue was very beneficial." Happily he ticked off the individual races. "In Connecticut, Weicker-I've talked with him-will vote like Dodd. With Buckley, there will be a 180° turnaround. The same with Brock in Tennessee and Bentsen in Texas. Taft? Well, it will be much better than with Young." Nixon made a morning-after list of Republican losers whose talents he wants to use in the Administration: it was headed...
...advisers admit that it is difficult to single out elections where this attack proved crucial. Two Senate victories that the Republicans picked up almost casually ?Glenn Beall's in Maryland and Lowell Weicker's in Connecticut?turned on other factors. Weicker ran against two opponents, Democratic Incumbent Thomas Dodd. who campaigned as an independent after failing to win renomination. and Joseph Duffey, an antiwar liberal who had gained the party's designation. Beall unseated Joseph Tydings, whom LIFE accused last summer of having less-than-strict ethical standards. Tydings also failed to attract large numbers of black voters whose...
Connecticut's traditional Democratic vote was split between that party's peace candidate, Rev. Joseph Duffey, and Thomas Dodd, the Democrat incumbent running as an Independent. Republican Rep. Lowell P. Weiker won with 41 per cent of the vote...