Senator Thomas J. Dodd
Rough transcript
The sad way of the world is that if you defame others, lots of fame will come to you, and your children.
Prosecutor Thomas Dodd, for instance, went on to become a U.S. Senator.
He has a baseball stadium named after him, and a research center.
His son is a U.S. Senator also, and ran for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 2007.
Hi, my name is Chris Don.
I want to introduce myself to you this afternoon, because I’m filing papers today, formally to be a candidate for the presidency, and I want to introduce myself to you.
I’m a senator from Connecticut. Of the Nuremberg trials.
When 22 of Hitler’s top henchmen, were sentenced for crimes against humanity.
Let me tell you why that particular historical event is important to me.
I was a year old. 1945, when my father left home for a year and a half, to go to a place called Nuremberg.
Now, remember the connection between lies and righteous and philosophical posturing.
But why not?
Why not?
Because America’s always stood for something more.
We are tested at such moments, and at Nuremberg, we reaffirmed and affirmed our humanity and our equipment to high principles. 20 million men, women, and children.
The world asked, when you consider their atrocities, why not just give in to vengeance?
Certainly, you can almost understand why they would. Considering the brutality of these people.
Why not just shoot the Nuremberg defendants?
As Winston Churchill wanted to do.
Instead of sending a team of lawyers to Numberburg, why don’t you send a team of executions to these people?
Why are we gonna give to them something more than they gave to their victims?
But why not?
Why not, because America’s always stood for something more?
We are tested at such moments.
And at Nuremberg, we reaffirmed and affirmed our humanity and our equipment to high principles.