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...message of the campaign brochure was slick and soothing: "Bentsen. He dreams dreams. But he doesn't chase rainbows." In announcing his candidacy last week for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas was nonetheless pursuing a decided long shot. He made the announcement first in the Senate Caucus Room in Washington, then on the same day flew down for an instant replay for the home folks at Houston's Rice Hotel. Bentsen, 54, became the fifth Democrat on a list that could contain more than ten names before the longest presidential campaign in American...
...LLOYD BENTSEN, 53. Suave and sophisticated, the Texas Senator is a landed millionaire (estimated worth: $2 million) whose cool style contrasts with the earthy, flesh-pressing ways of Texas politicians like Lyndon Johnson. Bentsen resists facile classification. His conservative image was buttressed by his unseating of Liberal Senator Ralph Yarborough in the 1970 primary and his opposition to busing and gun controls. Yet, claiming to be a political moderate, he has also opposed the SST, favored reduction in the oil depletion allowance, and voted to make it easier to cut off Senate filibusters. He is admired by Senate colleagues...
Kissinger denounced the cancellation of the meeting and pointed out, quite accurately, that the Administration had opposed the clause concerning OPEC members from the first but was overridden by Congress. Then the Administration persuaded Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas to introduce an amendment to the act that would grant nondiscriminatory trade treatment to those oil exporters that had not participated in last year's oil embargo...
...Wallace held court in his suite at the Holiday Inn, receiving visits from a dozen state delegations and some 20 Congressmen. Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, who is due to announce his candidacy this week, expertly worked the lobbies, smiling his down-home peanut-farmer grin, and Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, a millionaire, threw the biggest blast: a cocktail party attended by 4,000 people...
...styles abounded and most everybody got a good look at the Kansas City bars. Some presidential hopefuls held parties almost every night, inviting delegates and press up to their hospitality suites for a little free food and drink and some good conversation. About 5000 people showed up at Senator Bentsen's (D-Texas) suite Friday night and drank somewhere around $20,000 worth of liquor. A party given by the Latino caucus featured a seven-piece combo in green flowered shirts, an open bar, and tacos and enchalidas. The Louisiana delegation rented a room and filled it with tubs...