Word: bentsen
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Working out of an office two blocks from the White House, Baker commandeers a war room dominated by two large U.S. maps dotted with pins marking the movements of Bush, Dan Quayle, Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen. His desk is a conference table that seats twelve and is stacked with Baker's ubiquitous "things to do" lists. He makes or takes up to 100 phone calls a day, speaking with Bush about 16 times. His only break comes with a lunch of cottage cheese and tuna with Tabasco sauce. Once an avid ham-and-eggs man, Baker now watches...
While Quayle campaigned with Bush in Tennessee, Democratic vice presidential candidate Lloyd Bentsen tended to his Senate duties...
...Bentsen and Quayle plan to hold their only debate of the campaign on Oct. 5 in Omaha, Neb. Dukakis and Bush will meet again Oct. 13 or 14 in Los Angeles for their final debate...
Spokesmen for the Dukakis-Bentsen campaign said that they have not yet received the invitation and could not comment...
Family show, family rhetoric. In their acceptance speeches, Dukakis invoked family seven times; Bush, six; Quayle, eleven; Bentsen, a mere five. Every issue has become a family issue. Dukakis promises the "kind of America that provides American workers and their families" -- would single workers not have merited? -- "with at least 60 days' notice when a factory or a plant shuts down" and "jobs -- and I mean good jobs, jobs you can raise a family on." Bush averred that in business he learned that jobs "meant creating opportunity, which meant happy families." The unit of measure, and manipulation, in politics...