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...reduction in the oil depletion allowance that Nixon supported as President, nor do they like his opening the door to increased oil imports from foreign producers. What is more, Texas-always a key state politically-is vital to Nixon's strategy for 1972. Connally helped Democrat Lloyd Bentsen win a Senate seat this year from Nixon's hand-picked candidate, Representative George Bush. Nixon failed to carry Texas in either 1960 or 1968; the state's 26 electoral votes could be the difference between winning and losing in 1972. By luring Connally to Washington, Nixon could...
...campaign is to talk about your issue. The peace issue was very beneficial." Happily he ticked off the individual races. "In Connecticut, Weicker-I've talked with him-will vote like Dodd. With Buckley, there will be a 180° turnaround. The same with Brock in Tennessee and Bentsen in Texas. Taft? Well, it will be much better than with Young." Nixon made a morning-after list of Republican losers whose talents he wants to use in the Administration: it was headed by Clark MacGregor of Minnesota and George Bush of Texas. His Senate summary: "We gained a working...
...threatened by the ax of Robert Taft Jr. (7), while in Tennessee, Albert Gore (8) aims a mighty swipe at William Brock (9). In Florida, Lawton Chiles (10) closes with William Cramer (11), toe-deep in the Gulf of Mexico. And across the water in Texas, Lloyd Bentsen (12) raises his shield against George Bush (13). Finally, out on the Coast, John Tunney (14) wields a boxing glove bludgeon against dancing George Murphy...
TEXAS. "If Bentsen is going to try to go to my right, he's gonna step off the edge of the earth." Thus Republican George Bush last week
...Texas, a spot shows Lloyd Bentsen Jr., the Democratic senatorial candidate, walking in the woods, informally dressed, chatting about why he wants to be a Senator. The man he is with says nothing; he was paid only to walk and listen. In New York, intimate close-ups in a series of ten-second spots work at two levels for Senator Charles Goodell, who is behind in the race. On the surface, they are intended simply to increase voter recognition. More important perhaps, the camera looks him full in the eye, close up, portraying him as an independent of firmly held...