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...Edward Dodd '30 met Sione on an anthropological expedition to Tonga. He realized the young rugby star's intellectual talent and sponsored Sione's way through the Putney School in Putney, Vermont...
...long investigation has already sapped Dodd physically. As he listened wanly to Stennis make his report on the Senate floor, Dodd looked much older than his 59 years. Later, talking to reporters, he insisted that he would run again and let the people judge him: "My conscience is clear. My conduct is being judged by hindsight...
Ethical Contribution. Dodd does not quarrel with the factual assertions in the committee report; he objects only to the interpretation the committee puts on them. In an interview, Dodd almost airily dismissed the charges against him. He said he had thought the contribution from International Latex-which he received in cash from a company official-had been collected from individuals. "I should have told him to go back and get everyone to write out checks," he conceded. The double billing for travel expenses? Merely "sloppy bookkeeping" by one of the four disaffected aides who instigated the investigation by filching Dodd...
...Dodd also makes the pious claim that he requested and cooperated with the investigation. In fact, Dodd's compliant attitude ended as soon as the committee showed that it meant business; thereafter, he did everything he could to make its task more difficult...
What Congress really needs, Dodd said, is an orderly way to finance political campaigns. "I don't like going around begging for money. I've had to do it. But it's a humiliation." He also allowed that the Senate could use a meaningful code of ethics-which is sorely needed because, while Dodd was caught, he held no monopoly on hanky-panky. Now that the Committee on Standards and Conduct has completed its first case study, it can return well-schooled to its original assignment, which was to write such a code. If and when...