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...would tell Bush that all he has to do is to stay nice and loose, working Gore in a rope-a-dope sort of way, mocking him lightly, and wait for one of those openings that can produce a fatal sound-bite - something along the lines of Lloyd Bentsen's line in 1988: "I knew John Kennedy, and you're no John Kennedy!" (It occurred to no one at the time of that mot, which landed on Dan Quayle's jaw, that to tell a man he was no John Kennedy might actually be a compliment...
What is the real reason Congress is doing this? Because the legislation is just what banks, credit-card companies, debt consolidators and other financial-services businesses ordered. To get it, they retained high-powered Washington lobbyists, among them Haley Barbour, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, and Lloyd Bentsen, onetime Senator and Treasury Secretary. The price tag for lobbying: more than $5 million...
...Quayle watches all the campaign debates, does he wonder how the public perception of him might have differed had he responded with a snappy comeback in 1992 when Lloyd Bentsen said, "You're no John Kennedy...
...Lloyd M. Bentsen, Clinton's first Treasury secretary who served 22 years in the Senate and six years in the House. He was the Democratic Party's vice presidential nominee...
...contrast to the rocky relationship he apparently had with the Bush administration, Greenspan reportedly has a close working relationship with members of the Clinton administration--including strong ties to and mutual admiration of former treasury secretary Lloyd Bentsen, outgoing treasury secretary Robert Rubin '60 and incoming treasury secretary Lawrence H. Summers, who is also the former Ropes professor of political economy at Harvard...