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...second time occurred in 1964, when Johnson dangled the vice-presidency before McCarthy (and Connecticut's Senator Thomas Dodd) before throwing it to Fellow Minnesotan Hubert Humphrey. Lyndon lavished praise on McCarthy, called him "the kind of man-as we say in the ranch country of Texas-who will go to the well with you." McCarthy went to the well with Lyndon-and got dunked...
...looked more and more as if the physical types of protest-picketing and marching and all that-were having no effect except as an emotional outlet," said Jon Barbieri, 23, a Connecticut-educated Peace Corpsman who came back from India and soon entered McCarthy's campaign. Said Dan Dodd, 23, a tall, tweedy Oregonian who dropped out of Union Theological Seminary to join Gene: "I was thinking of turning in my draft card, but then the campaign began. We're not going to build grass-roots politics in time to end the war by November...
...Conduct last week proposed "additions to the standing rules of the Senate." They amounted, in fact, to a bulky code of ethics intended to spare the Senate future embarrassments of the kind that have plagued it in the past, most notoriously those occasioned by the transgressions of Tom Dodd and Bobby Baker...
...Supreme Court has made criticism of a public official virtually libel-proof. Only if a newsman maliciously lies in print can a suit be brought successfully. So it was that last month Connecticut Senator Thomas Dodd called off his libel suit against Columnists Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson (TIME, Dec. 22). But Dodd continued to press action against the newsmen for having conspired in the stealing of some of his private documents. It was those documents that Pearson and Anderson had used in the columns that first brought Dodd's financial indiscretions to light. Dodd figured that they...
Noting that Dodd was only facing up to "realities," District Court Judge Alexander Holtzoff wryly reprimanded his superiors. "As a result of Times v. Sullivan," he said, "libel law was changed by the Supreme Court in a most revolutionary manner. A court which had previously been concerned with the rights of individuals has limited the rights of holders of public office." The libel limitation, concluded Holtzoff, "is now one of the penalties of being a high official...