Word: bentsen
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...Michael S. Dukakis, the Democratic presidential nominee, and his running mate Sen. Lloyd M. Bentsen turned up the heat yesterday in a get-tough campaign against their rival, Vice President George Bush, who buoyantly prepared for a cross-country tour of industrial states rich in electoral votes...
...Republican. "If we could change the nominee . . . well, I regret it all." The same polls that showed Bush pulling even with, or slightly ahead of, Michael Dukakis also indicated skepticism about Quayle. An NBC/Wall Street Journal survey last week found that, by 2 to 1, voters preferred Lloyd Bentsen over Quayle as President...
After his Senate loss to Lloyd Bentsen in 1970, Bush saw all the upward paths to elective office blocked in Texas, and decided to risk his future with Nixon and diplomacy. Secret notes in the Nixon archives show that Bush admitted, after serving in the U.N., that he could hardly go back and run for office in the state where he had begun his career by denouncing the U.N. Less clear was that taking favors from Richard Nixon was a way of getting in line for trouble. Barbara Bush seems to have sensed this when she warned her husband...
Some Texas Republicans hope former Heisman Trophy winner Roger Staubach, who led the Dallas Cowboys to two Superbowl victories, will lead the them in victory against Bentsen in November. They held a "Draft Staubach" meeting yesterday in New Orleans, to show their support for the former NFL quarterback...
MOREOVER, as much as Bush's supporters may try to deny this, Quayle is no match for his Democratic counter-part, Lloyd Bentsen, in intelligence, leadership, experience or qualifications for the presidency. He is widely considered by congressional colleagues on both sides of the aisle as a lightweight, a nice guy with a pretty face but with virtually no substantive achievements in his 12 years in Congress. During a dinner for top Republican officials earlier this week, the main topic of conversation was who would be Bush's pick as a running mate. When Quayle's name was mentioned, many...