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...cash, as long as they did not accept any federal funds. As a result, aides to relatively poor Fred Harris and Morris Udall complained that the court decision hypothetically gave an unfair advantage to candidates with money of their own. Among the better-off are Milton Shapp, Lloyd Bentsen and Sargent Shriver, who is married to a Kennedy. Said Udall's campaign manager, Brother Stewart Udall: "Is it fair? You put Fred Harris and Nelson Rockefeller in the same ring and say, 'Go at it, boys, and have a fair fight...
Senator Lloyd Bentsen, 54. Last October his doctor noted "rhythmic twitch of the cheek, right corner of his mouth, associated with blinking of his eyes." Condition stopped when "patient was made aware" of it. No other medical problems...
...stood adamantly against decriminalization of pot. Jimmy Carter, Sargent Shriver, Frank Church, Morris Udall, Henry Jackson, Birch Bayh, Fred Harris and Milton Shapp all favored making possession of minor amounts a civil offense punishable only by fine-though they favored keeping a strict penalty for pushing. Another respondent, Lloyd Bentsen, favored lessening of the criminal penalties for first offenders. So far, Republican Candi dates Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan have not changed their positions against decriminalization...
Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen tells an overflow crowd in Holyoke 833, "Some people say, 'America, Love It or Leave It.' Well, in this bicentennial year I say, 'America, Build It or Boot...
...attitude helped make Rayburn the longest-tenured Speaker the House has ever had--he held the job for a total of 17 years--and probably the most influential politician in Texas history. Fourteen years after his death, Texas politics is still dominated by Rayburn proteges like John Connally, Lloyd Bentsen and others of the same ilk--practical, adaptable men who relish the exercise of power for its own sake and maintain a highly skeptical regard for principles and ideologies...