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...around the objections, Texas Senators John Tower and Lloyd Bentsen drafted a bipartisan measure which transfers the highway project from the federal to the state government. By so doing, no federal funds would be lost (the money could go to build another Texas interstate highway somewhere else...
...galleries murmured again when Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen, a freshman widely viewed as a conservative, uttered his no-even though Fellow Texan John Connally had been assigned to coax a yes from him. Heads bowed over their tally sheets, Jackson and Washington's other SST proponent, Democrat Warren Magnuson, looked glum. Proxmire's fist shot up again when Cooper showed that Nixon's appeal had not influenced him; he voted against the SST. Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey, who owes a huge debt to labor for its support in his presidential race, nevertheless cast his vote against...
...campaign has reversed the trend of congressional mail. Just two weeks ago. Freshman Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas was getting about 100 letters a week about the aircraft, 80% of them opposed. Now he gets 450 letters a week about the SST-and 80% are favorable. A particular target is the plane's most effective opponent, Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire. Backers have passed out bumper stickers intended to punish Proxmire on his home turf. One urges a boycott of Wisconsin cheese. In a lighter vein, another proclaims...
THREE weeks after the attack on the Ho Chi Minh Trail had begun. South Viet Nam's rugged Quang Tri province, the chief staging area, became a major stop on the VIP circuit. Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen, new to the Senate Armed Services Committee, flew in by executive jet, only to be waved away from Khe Sanh when Communist mortar fire suddenly thudded in. South Viet Nam's Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, resplendent in his standard field getup-black flight suit, purple scarf and revolver-arrived to visit South Vietnamese marines. "I tried to visit Laos myself...
...LLOYD BENTSEN JR., 49, Democrat, Texas, is a wealthy banker, a protégé of Lyndon Johnson and John Connally, but not as conservative as he is often portrayed. He will support Mexican-American causes despite Chicano hostility to his powerful citrus-growing family. He commends Nixon's foreign policy, but wants no more Cambodias. By and large, Bentsen flunks the President domestically...