Chris Dodd for President

Soon after I was elected to the Senate in the early 1980s, I decided to take action against a system that forced Americans to choose between caring for their families and providing for them. If workers needed time off to be there for loved ones, then employers needed to give it. That's why I authored the FMLA in 1985, and that's why I fought for its passage through eight years of obstruction and two Presidential vetoes.

Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) will be the keynote speaker at a conference commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials.

The three-day conference at Washington University in St. Louis began Friday. Dodd’s father, Sen. Thomas Dodd, was a prosecutor for the U.S. chief of counsel during the war-crimes tribunal. “I knew the names Treblinka, Auschwitz and Buchenwald long before my Jewish friends did,” Dodd told JTA of his discussions with his father. “Our dinner table was a constant discussion of man’s inhumanity toward man.”
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(Washington-AP, Sept. 30, 2006 6:00 PM) _ Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd is in St. Louis today at a conference to mark the 60th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials.

He says the trials of major German war criminals in the mid-1940s were where America's moral authority in the second half of the 20th century was born.
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By RAY HACKETT
Norwich Bulletin

Some odds and ends from a busy week on the campaign trail:

Today marks the 60th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials, when verdicts were handed down in the cases of 22 surviving officers of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany. Saturday, a conference was held at Washington University where the events of that historic trial of war criminals were recalled. And one of the speakers was U.S. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, D-Conn., whose father, Tom Dodd, served as a prosecutor at the trials.
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By DAVID LIGHTMAN, Washington Bureau Chief

WASHINGTON - U.S. -- Sen. Christopher J. Dodd today takes his crusade against the new system of trying terrorist suspects from his father's Senate desk to a conference commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials - trials where, Dodd will say, "America's moral authority in the second half of the 20th century was born."
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