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...Dukakis chose a native Texan, say Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, as his running mate, Texas would almost certainly vote Democrat. Bentsen, born and bred in Texas, would portray Bush as the true prep-school Northerner he really is. With another choice, Texans would quickly turn from the part-time Texan with three homes around the United States. Besides, Bush just put down the state's hero...
...Jackson, later an Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration. "The study contained some very sensitive intelligence," recalls former CIA Director Stansfield Turner, who forced Sullivan to resign from the agency. Hardly slowed by the episode, Sullivan moved to Capitol Hill as an aide to Democratic Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas...
...watching every move. Something like that is happening on Capitol Hill, where a mammoth conference committee is trying to reconcile differences in the omnibus trade bills passed last year by the House and Senate. Under the direction of two Democratic leaders -- Representative Dan Rostenkowski of Illinois and Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas -- the 199 members of the committee, along with 300 or so staffers and 100 briefcase carriers sent over by the White House, have been meeting in 17 subgroups in an all-out effort to get a comprehensive piece of legislation on President Reagan's desk by April...
...pages) is nearly impossible. "The hardest part is remembering what each member of Congress wants," says a member of Rostenkowski's committee staff, "and what priority he puts on each of his requests." Staffers have been working well into the night and coming in on weekends, their briefcases bulging. Bentsen's group is dubbed the "committee that never sleeps...
Some Southerners are worried that Bork's impact on civil rights legislation could revive the hostilities of the 1950s and '60s over desegregation. Announcing his opposition to Bork last week, Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen remarked, "In virtually every case where he has taken a position, Judge Bork has opposed the advancement of civil rights over the past 25 years." Former President Jimmy Carter stressed that point in a letter he sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee last week. Wrote Carter: "As a Southerner who has observed personally the long and difficult years of the struggle for civil rights for black...