Word: bentsen
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...Bentsen, the Democratic vice presidential candidate, told a television interviewer he thought the Bush campaign was making a racist appeal by focusing on Willie Horton Jr., a Black convicted murderer who escaped in 1986 from a Massachusetts prison furlough...
Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee Lloyd Bentsen and the Rev. Jesse Jackson yesterday accused Republican nominee George Bush's campaign of injecting racism into the presidential campaign by pounding Democrat Michael Dukakis over the Massachusetts prison furlough issue...
Meanwhile, Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, Dukakis' runningmate, said he was giving himself the job ofanswering GOP charges. "Every time they issue afalsehood, I'm going to take them on andstraighten that one out," he told workers at thehuge General Electric appliance plant inLouisville...
...Bentsen, a World War II veteran, said he tookit "as a personal insult to me" that theRepublicans were trying to paint Dukakis as weakon defense...
...Bentsen, in Los Angeles, denounced Bush'scampaign attacks on Dukakis as "an utterly viciousonslaught of distortion and characterassassination." He said the Democrats have "been alittle too flabbergasted sometimes to make aproper response...