Word: bentsen
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...Unifier. Humphrey benefits, of course, from the weakness of the competition. The seven announced candidates -Udall, Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, Lloyd Bentsen, Jimmy Carter, Milton Shapp, Terry Sanford and Fred Harris -have not aroused any enthusiasm in an electorate supposedly yearning for a new face. And with Ted Kennedy repeatedly rejecting all talk of a campaign, Humphrey is increasingly seen as a unifier who can keep the factious Democratic Party together. He still maintains loyal support among labor, blacks and farmers. Says a staffer on the national committee: "Any other candidate who depended on support from these groups would find Humphrey...
...state committees after the Turkish invasion to raise money for Greek-Cypriot refugees (collections so far: $1.3 million) and to urge letters to Congressmen. Iakovos has personally pressed the issue with President Ford, Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy and Democratic Presidential Contenders Henry Jackson and Lloyd Bentsen. The other is AHEPA (American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association), the Greek-American fraternal order, which has 400 chapters and about 50,000 members, as well as some 700 chapters of auxiliary organizations for women, boys and girls. AHEPA headquarters raised $165,000 to run newspaper-ad campaigns and to solicit letters; it sent delegations...
Roughly the same argument is made by other Southerners in the race: Georgia's Jimmy Carter, Texas' Lloyd Bentsen and Oklahoma's Fred Harris. So many more Democrats are on the verge of entering that the field will soon be as crowded as a cotillion, and all will be watching how well the Southerners do against the cocky, crowd-pleasing Governor from Alabama...
...Lloyd Bentsen U.S. Senator, Texas Washington...
...with no depletion repeal in it. Leading a successful floor fight to knock out the allowance for all but the smallest independent oil producers were Ernest ("Fritz") Rollings, a South Carolina Democrat with vice-presidential ambitions, and Massachusetts' Edward Kennedy. They were sharply opposed by Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen, an announced presidential candidate and friend of the oil producers. Certain that depletion was politically unsupportable in the face of soaring oil-company profits and that its repeal would eventually pass in some form. Long abandoned any prolonged fight to preserve this tax loophole. The Senate then cast preliminary votes...