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Dodd himself occasionally seemed genuinely confused about the difference between his personal and his political expenses. As he put it to his colleagues in the Senate on the final day: "Just about everything I've done from 1956 to this hour has been intertwined with politics. I rarely remember a time when I had anything in these years that I would say was purely a personal matter." In fact, he added, "when I say personal, I should say personal-political. It is pretty hard for me to distinguish between them."
For a man whose life is politics, the line must sometimes be easily blurred. The question is whether it was blurred just a little too often in the case of Tom Dodd—and if so, what penalty he must pay for his faulty vision.