Joe Lieberman: “I would like to just add a few words to my colleague's extraordinary statement. Mr. President, as Senator Dodd has…”

“I would like to just add a few words to my colleague's extraordinary statement. Mr. President, as Senator Dodd has referred to that critical moment in the 1954 campaign of Senator Ribicoff for Governor of Connecticut, when there were expressions of bigotry, of anti-Semitism, and Senator Ribicoff at a turning point in his own career rose to challenge those whispers directly in the eloquent words that Senator Dodd has spoken in what has become known in Connecticut political lore as Abe Ribicoff's 'American Dream Speech.' In the bottom line of it was Senator Ribicoff saying, 'Abe Ribicoff believes in the American dream.' And indeed he did. The extraordinary life that he led that ended yesterday, after 87 years, is a testament to the vitality of the American dream.”