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Over the weekend, Bentsen cut short his trip and returned to Washington to help Clinton plot strategy. He admits to being pleased by the President's recent moves toward the center. "That appeals to my views," he told TIME on Saturday as he prepared to leave Europe. "Obviously there were times when I thought a different course should have been taken," he said of the President's original plan, which relies more on taxes than spending cuts to reduce the deficit. "Now, in the Senate, there will be some energy-tax reduction and spending cuts as well. I guess everyone...
...comparing the way the candidate tossed her blond hair to the slow-motion antics of models in the shampoo commercial. But Hutchison, the Texas state treasurer, survived those and many other attacks. Last week she defeated Democrat Bob Krueger, winning the seat vacated in January by Lloyd Bentsen and becoming the first woman to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate. As Texas political analyst George Christian noted, "The gender factor has worked for her. I don't think you can overstate the issue of gender in today's politics. Women are playing political catch...
Trailing badly in the polls, Krueger, who was appointed by Governor Ann Richards to fill Bentsen's seat until the election, attempted a Hollywood- style comeback. A former English literature professor, he appeared in a commercial in leather and sunglasses a la Terminator, confessed to stuffiness and a proclivity for bad dark suits, then spouted the line, "Was it Shakespeare who said, 'Hasta la vista, baby'?" The act of self-deprecation bombed, becoming instead one of self-mockery. A Hutchison ad's reply: "Hasta la vista, Bobby." Even Barbara Bush piped in. "I know Arnold Schwarzenegger," she said...
Compounding Clinton's troubles, Democrat Bob Krueger, the appointed occupant of Bentsen's Senate seat, lost the Texas Senate race to Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison. The defeat reduced the President's Democratic majority in the Senate...
...conservative Democratic city of Milwaukee as the setting for his announcement that he was willing to cut both taxes and spending in his budget plan. He asked that education and job training be spared, but appeared ready to sacrifice part of his proposed energy tax. Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen later said it might be reduced by as much as a third. Clinton also delayed a push to increase the minimum wage...