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Dodd also recalled how Clements used an anecdote about a "poor 89-year-old French lady" who got her "old-age pension" check from the Jones administration, and it was not the $30 promised at all, but a mere 25 cents. Dodd said that Clements was jealous of Dodd because Clements, eleven years Dodd's senior, was not having quite as much upward mobility in politics as Dodd seemed to be having at the time. They were both from Allen Parish; Clements, from the parish seat in Oberlin and Dodd, from Oakdale, though Dodd was a native of Texas and grew up in Sabine Parish in western Louisiana. "It hurt his ego, for me, an outsider, to have gotten ahead of him," Dodd said.<ref name=bdodd/>
Dodd also recalled how Clements used an anecdote about a "poor 89-year-old French lady" who got her "old-age pension" check from the Jones administration, and it was not the $30 promised at all, but a mere 25 cents. Dodd said that Clements was jealous of Dodd because Clements, eleven years Dodd's senior, was not having quite as much upward mobility in politics as Dodd seemed to be having at the time. They were both from Allen Parish; Clements, from the parish seat in Oberlin and Dodd, from Oakdale, though Dodd was a native of Texas and grew up in Sabine Parish in western Louisiana. "It hurt his ego, for me, an outsider, to have gotten ahead of him," Dodd said.<ref name=bdodd/>
Dodd recalled on a road trip that he, Clements, and others took to Winnsboro in Franklin Parish south of Monroe. Dodd said that Clements was "lecturing us on the evil effects of drinking (we had drunk a beer) and the dangers of fooling around with loose women, particularly during political campaigns. He used his long and successful career in politics free off drinking, womanizing, [[gambling]], and other sins, as he called them, to emphasize the value of abstinence, which he equated with success."<ref name=bdodd/>
Dodd recalled on a road trip that he, Clements, and others took to Winnsboro in Franklin Parish south of Monroe. Dodd said that Clements was "lecturing us on the evil effects of drinking (we had drunk a beer) and the dangers of fooling around with loose women, particularly during political campaigns. He used his long and successful career in politics free off drinking, womanizing, [[gambling]], and other sins, as he called them, to emphasize the value of abstinence, which he equated with success."<ref name=bdodd/>
Dodd laughed that Clements was "a hypocrite when it came to practicing what he preached, but he meant what he was saying when he said it."<ref name=bdodd/>
Dodd laughed that Clements was "a hypocrite when it came to practicing what he preached, but he meant what he was saying when he said it."<ref name=bdodd/>