Word: bentsens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Trailing badly in the polls, Krueger, who was appointed by Governor Ann Richards to fill Bentsen's seat until the election, attempted a Hollywood- style comeback. A former English literature professor, he appeared in a commercial in leather and sunglasses a la Terminator, confessed to stuffiness and a proclivity for bad dark suits, then spouted the line, "Was it Shakespeare who said, 'Hasta la vista, baby'?" The act of self-deprecation bombed, becoming instead one of self-mockery. A Hutchison ad's reply: "Hasta la vista, Bobby." Even Barbara Bush piped in. "I know Arnold Schwarzenegger," she said...
Compounding Clinton's troubles, Democrat Bob Krueger, the appointed occupant of Bentsen's Senate seat, lost the Texas Senate race to Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison. The defeat reduced the President's Democratic majority in the Senate...
...conservative Democratic city of Milwaukee as the setting for his announcement that he was willing to cut both taxes and spending in his budget plan. He asked that education and job training be spared, but appeared ready to sacrifice part of his proposed energy tax. Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen later said it might be reduced by as much as a third. Clinton also delayed a push to increase the minimum wage...
...CABINET: Can Bentsen Deliver...
...G.O.P. candidate wins Bentsen's Senate seat...