Word: bentsen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...York Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro, who heads the party's platform committee, visited the St. Paul suburb on Saturday, ostensibly to talk about platform planks. She is to be followed this week by Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen and San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein...
...bomber pilot in World War II, Bentsen strongly supports the MX missile and the B-l bomber, both of which Mondale opposes. Bentsen opposes a nuclear freeze, which Mondale firmly favors. Bentsen is against the protectionist domestic-content legislation; passage of the bill is a top priority with Mondale. Despite the differences, Bentsen would be comfortable running with Mondale. A President, he says, should not be surrounded...
Heir to an enormous South Texas real estate fortune, Bentsen was elected county judge at age 25, and to Congress at 27. In 1954, when he was 33, he went back home to build up his own business and did not return to Washington until 1971, as a Senator. Five years later, he ran for the Democratic presidential nomination. Hardly anyone noticed, and he dropped out of the race after a year. In the Senate, he is a leading member of the Finance Committee, and also acutely attuned to the complexities of immigration. As head of the Senate Democrats...
...Bentsen's manner is patrician and somber, his speaking style stolid, less rousing even than Mondale's. According to Dallas Times Herald Columnist Molly Ivins, Bentsen "has the charisma of a dead catfish." But he is nonetheless popular with both Republicans and Democrats in Texas and has a loyal following among Mexican Americans, who appreciate his fluency in Spanish. He won re-election in 1982 with 59% of the vote, the highest plurality in a Texas Senate race since 1958. Bentsen, however, might exacerbate Mondale's single biggest campaign embarrassment so far: the Texan gets more Political...
...raise enough money to carry on a serious campaign. A vice-presidential race, even if it fails, would provide national exposure that might enhance Bumpers' presidential prospects in 1988. But his nomination in San Francisco in July, says Bumpers breezily, "is not going to happen." Why not? "Lloyd Bentsen would bring five times as many electoral votes as I would...