President Harry Truman once famously said that if you want a friend in Washington get a dog. He was joking of course. There are some very strong friendships in the nation's capital.

And one of the strongest was the friendship between Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut and fellow Democrat Sen. Edward Kennedy who just died of brain cancer.

Dodd, with his wife Jackie by his side, took a few moments to speak with the media in Connecticut to give his reaction to his friend's death.

"Millions of people counted on this guy everyday to stand up for them," Dodd said.

Then he got personal: "I lost my best friend in the Senate... I'm saddened by it deeply. It's like losing a brother."

He told a story about how passionate Kennedy was about the social-justice issues Congress on which the Senate would be working, sometimes going into the emotional zone he would often go into when he spoke on the Senate floor.

He and Kennedy would go sailing on Kennedy's boat and his friend would slam his fist into the side of the boat to punctuate his points about health-care or unemployment.

" 'I'd say I'm your only audience. You don't have to scream at me, ' " Dodd remembered.