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Thomas J. Dodd Papers

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Series I: Outgoing Correspondence, 1959-1970

Thomas J. Dodd Papers

Series I: Outgoing Correspondence

Organization

Series I: Outgoing Correspondence (1959-1970) houses responses from Thomas Dodd and his staff to constituents, individuals from outside Connecticut with particular policy agendas, state political leaders, members of Congress, and representatives of the executive branch. These letters generally deal with such routine constituent issues as service academy appointments, bureaucratic errors, legal predicaments, immigration and naturalization problems, requests for social security benefits, and postmaster appointments. Subjects of national and international interest, however, are also discussed. In letters to Marjorie Brown, Thomas Gaines, and Robert Simmons in 1959, Dodd discusses the Senate filibuster rule and the seniority system. He addresses his views on inflation in a July 1960 letter to Anne Dalton; his views on the Berlin crisis and the necessity for nuclear weapons in a twelve page April 1960 letter to C. Douglas Dillon; his reasons for supporting Lyndon Johnson for the 1960 presidential nomination in letters to such persons as Allen Bell, J. Gerard Flynn, Gerald Oaksmith, and Perry Shafner in 1959-1960; his opposition to Nikita Khrushchev's visit to the U.N. in a 1959 letter to Arthur Carroll; and his support for a federal anti-lynching law in a 1959 letter to Alfred B. Lewis. In 1960 letters to Harper's, the Providence Journal, and others, he responds to an article written by critic Kenneth Tynan describing his appearance before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. In a March 1963, letter to Adrian Fisher, Deputy Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Dodd outlines in considerable detail his misgivings over the draft nuclear test ban treaty between the United States and Soviet Union. A file of "Statements by Thomas J. Dodd" for 1965 includes requested insertions into the Congressional Record and drafts of speeches and press releases. A letter of August 9, 1967, to Mrs. Horton O'Neil, enumerates Dodd's views on the Cold War in Asia and his support of U.S. policy in Vietnam. Another detailed exposition of Dodd's opinions of events in Asia can be found in a February 29, 1968 letter to Steven Anderson. Dodd defends recent elections held in South Vietnam and distinguishes between different variations of Communism, such as Soviet, Chinese, and Yugoslavian.

The outgoing correspondence is arranged alphabetically by year. Those constituents who received eight or more replies in a single year are listed by name in the box and folder list. Dodd's Senate office retained two carbon copies of all outgoing correspondence. Series I contains yellow carbons, while appropriate white copies are located in Series II and other portions of the collection.

Series II: Subject Files (1959-1969)

Series III: Administrative and Legislative Files (1949-1971)

Series IV: Investigative Files (1956-1970)

Series V: Foreign Travel Files (1954-1969)

Series VI: Campaign Files (1949-1970)

Series VII: Nuremberg Trial (1919-1995)

Series VIII: Personal Papers (1920-1971)

Series IX: Scrapbooks (1935-1971)

Series X: Photographs (1920-1971)

Series XI: Awards and Memorabilia (1926-1970)

Series XII: Audiovisual Materials (1946-1969)

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