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Thread #83465 Message #1534606
Posted By: Mark Cohen
04-Aug-05 - 01:01 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: Sen. Joe McCarthy
Subject: RE: Folklore: Sen. Joe McCarthy
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...