Dodd running for president - will announce it on Imus.

[Mass]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/10/AR2007011001650.html

Dodd to Enter 2008 Presidential Race

By BETH FOUHY
The Associated Press
Wednesday, January 10, 2007; 5:18 PM

NEW YORK -- Democratic Sen. Christopher Dodd, a veteran lawmaker who entered Congress in the post-Watergate class of 1974, will announce his bid for the presidency, Democratic officials said Wednesday.

Dodd, 62, will make the formal announcement in an interview Thursday morning on the "Imus in the Morning" radio show _ a curious bit of timing since he'll be forced to compete with heavy coverage of President Bush's speech on the Iraq war.


Dodd will travel late Thursday to Iowa, which will host the first presidential nominating caucus next January. He heads to South Carolina, an early primary state, on Sunday.

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Dodd has been politically active on behalf of other Democrats, raising money and campaigning for candidates across the country and chaired the Democratic National Committee from 1995-96.

In 1974, he was elected to the House at the age of 30, part of a Democratic tide after the Watergate scandal and President Nixon's resignation. His father, Thomas Dodd, served as a senator for two terms.

Dodd and his wife, Jackie Marie Clegg, have two daughters, ages 5 and 22 months.