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People also seem to be listening to Joseph Duffey, 37, a minister of the United Church of Christ, as he attempts to take the Democratic senatorial nomination away from Connecticut's aging, ailing Thomas Dodd, 63. National chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action, Duffey proposes reorienting Connecticut's defense industries for non-military production, plays down his clerical credentials. "I am not running as a clergyman," he says. "I am running as a citizen, a Democrat and a father...
Carping at the more egregious ethical lapses on Capitol Hill is a popular American sport. It is in season all the time, and offers bounties to political scientists and editorial writers whenever a plump target like Bobby Baker, Senator Thomas Dodd or Representative Adam Clayton Powell pops up. The sport is perfectly legitimate, especially because Congressmen are often hasty to impose tougher conflict-of-interest standards on others than on their own erring colleagues. But serious, searching analysis of the subject is uncommon. Last week the Association of the Bar of the City of New York produced exactly that...
...nomination, scheduled for Wednesday if recommittal failed. They found that some Senators had indeed bought the concept that recommittal was a gutless way out, and preferred voting directly on confirmation. Among them were Oregon's Republican Robert Packwood, Hawaii's Republican Hiram Fong, Connecticut's Democrat Thomas Dodd. If all the other 44 anti-Carswell votes held firm and those three could be persuaded to vote no, that would close the gap to within one vote of a 48-48 tie (four legislators would be absent). Bayh was sure that Illinois Republican Charles Percy would provide that vote...
...vote to reassess the situation. They looked at that eight-vote margin and compared notes on which pro-Carswell Senators they might lose. To their consternation, they detected the same potential slippage that Bayh and Brooke had sniffed: the possible loss of Republicans Packwood, Fong and Percy, plus Democrat Dodd. That would not be fatal, since Vice President Agnew would break the tie in the Administration's favor, but it was highly dangerous. "We knew then that we were in trouble," one strategist recalls. The White House men scanned the Democrats who had voted for recommittal, hoping that they might...
Quite by chance, there are seven senatorial seats to be filled for which there are no clear favorites. They include a seat being vacated in Ohio and those now held by Democrats Thomas Dodd in Connecticut, Ralph Yarborough in Texas, Gale McGee in Wyoming, Frank Moss in Utah, Quentin Burdick in North Dakota, and Republican Charles Goodell in New York, who was appointed to Robert Kennedy's seat...