Dr. Duffey blamed his defeat partly on the late entrance of an independent candidate, Thomas J. Dodd, the Democratic incumbent. “In those days, it was really a war in this country,” Dr. Duffey told the Hartford Courant in 1993, shortly before Clinton’s inauguration. His father lost a leg in a coal-mining accident and became a barber, and his mother died when Dr. Duffey was 13. A few weeks before his death, Dr. Duffey celebrated the 50th anniversary of his Senate campaign with a virtual reunion on Zoom, held with Clinton and other former campaign staffers. When they last gathered, at Clinton’s inauguration in 1993, Dr. Duffey warned against romanticizing the 1970 campaign and that period in the country’s history.

Source: Washington Post February 27, 2021 17:48 UTC