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...Senator conceded his liking and respect for Julius Klein, a Chicago-based lobbyist and public relations man whose clients include West German interests. Their relationship, focal point of the ethics committee's initial sessions, was recorded in a voluminous correspondence that Dodd had kept in unlocked files...
...ashamed of you." Dodd did his best to placate the lobbyist, who returned to the offensive with repeated, sometimes brusque requests that the Senator help him to overcome German doubts about renewing Klein's lucrative public relations contracts...
...year-old group, chaired by Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, started with two days of closed sessions, followed by three days of public hearings. This initial phase of the investigation was restricted to Dodd's relationship with Julius Klein, a Chicago-based public-relations man and lobbyist who has a number of West German industrial and quasi-political accounts. Boyd said that in December 1964, his long-held concern about the Senator's dealings with Klein was sharpened by Dodd's reports of his campaign financing, which he said, concealed the "misappropriation of hundreds of thousands of dollars...
...evidence that Dodd raised money ostensibly for campaign costs and then used the funds for personal expenses. The Senate Select Committee on Standards and Conduct also announced last week that it would hold public hearings on the "alleged relationship" between Dodd and Julius Klein, a public-relations man and lobbyist who represents West German interests...
Senate speeches written by Klein on behalf of his clients, and even visited West Germany in 1964 to defend the lobbyist before officials in Bonn after a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing had generated adverse publicity about his activities...