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Article: Christopher Dodd: a worldview shaped by his father and fatherhood.(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
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- December 27, 2007
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Byline: Alexandra Marks Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
DES MOINES, IOWA -- Two days after terrorists imploded the World Trade Center and left a gaping hole in the Pentagon, Christopher Dodd became a father for the first time. His daughter Grace was born in Arlington, Va. That, in part, explains why the Connecticut Democrat, now in his early 60s, crisscrosses Iowa in what many say is a quixotic quest for the presidency.
"We could still see the Pentagon smoldering from that hospital," says Senator Dodd in a Monitor interview. "And I asked myself the question that parents have over the ages, 'What kind of a world is this child arriving in?' ...