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...Thomas Dodd of Connecticut usually votes with liberals on domestic issues, and was part of the solid New England support John Kennedy built up in 1960. However, Dodd felt he owed Long total loyalty. Long was the only Senator who championed him in 1967 against charges of misusing campaign funds and was one of only five to vote against his censure; Kennedy cast one of the 92 damning votes...
...Separate codes of ethics were adopted by the Senate, in the wake of the Tom Dodd case, and the House, following the Adam Clayton Powell investigation, but both were weak...
...recently united Kennedy-McCarthy forces face an uphill battle in overthrowing the rule of party "czar" John Bailey in what was--until McCarthy and the war--a very strong and single-minded party which brooked little in-fighting. With a Nixon landslide in 1968 and scandle-ridden hawkish Senator Dodd up for re-election in 1970, the liberals with Senator Ribicoff's leadership may be able to pull off a coup before the 1972 elections...
...coalition under McCarthyite the Rev. Joseph Duffey is concentrating on re-electing Ribicoff in '68 (hated by the old guard after his anti-Daley Chicago speech), on lobbying for a progressive legislative program in '69, and taking on Dodd in '70. They are furiously building a grass-roots organization...
...national lands for their own interest. He expects to become Conglomerate's chairman, and is obviously a bigger rascal than most Congressmen. But the plot is familiar, and the novel admittedly originated as an agent's suggestion designed to capitalize on Pearson's role in exposing Dodd...