His colleague, Sen. Thomas Dodd of Connecticut, former chair of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (father of the incumbent Chris Dodd), did make it into a song, by Phil Ochs: Well, I'm just a typical American boy From a typical American town I believe in God and Senator Dodd And keeping old Castro down. Dodd was a rabid anti-Communist, but also a major supporter of civil rights legislation. And I believe he first made a name for himself as a zealous prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials. So much for simplification. Maybe Joe was lucky that his name was hard to rhyme... Aloha, Mark
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