THOMAS J. DODD - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 157366

THOMAS J. DODD
Signed 8x10 photo, inscribed to veteran Red-hunter Ben Mandel, "a great and good American"
Photograph inscribed and signed: "To/Ben Mandel -/a great and/good American/Thomas J. Dodd". B/w, 8x10. Photo: Maurice Manson. THOMAS J. DODD (1907-1971) was a special agent for the FBI and assistant to 5 US Attorneys General before serving as executive trial counsel at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, where he cross-examined several Nazi leaders and drafted indictments. Dodd, a Democrat, represented Connecticut for two terms in the US House (1953-1957). He lost a Senate bid to Republican Prescott Bush (George Bush's father) in 1956, but won the first of two Senate elections in 1958. Dodd had understandable reasons for having overlooked Mandel's retirement, in addition to the hospitalization he mentions here. On June 23, 1967, the Senate had voted 92-5 to censure Dodd for financial misconduct: appropriating campaign funds for his personal use. Denied re-nomination as a Democrat in 1970, he ran as an independent, losing a 3-way race to Republican Lowell Weicker. His son, Christopher Dodd, has been a US Senator since 1980. BENJAMIN MANDEL, a former communist turned anti-communist, had been a staffer of the House Un-American Activities Committee from the early 1940s, under its first Chairman, Martin Dies of Texas. In the 1950s, Senator Pat McCarran of Nevada hired him as research director of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, later chaired by Thomas Dodd. Lightly toned at lower edge. Photographer's stamp on verso (no show-through). Fine condition.