Word: bentsens
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...Caspian rush early, the U.S. government was slow to get organized. Some of Washington's top power brokers and law firms went to work for Caspian governments or U.S. companies, selling, consulting, lobbying or opening doors. Among them were former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, former Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, and John Sununu, who was George Bush's chief of staff. Perhaps the most active Washington name is former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, now a consultant for Amoco. He has long been a mentor to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and he has warned the White House for years that...
Your item "Larry The Shrinking Violet" noted that I had dropped by a party held by Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen the night of the Administration's NAFTA victory. I was en route to a taping of my show at CNN, and I was not wearing a "cozy white warm-up outfit," as you said, but my usual on-air uniform: dress shirt, tie, suspenders, respectable dark dress trousers and my favorite baseball jacket, which celebrates Japan's Nippon Ham Fighters team. That didn't seem to bother anyone; President Clinton even asked where he could get a jacket like mine...
...kiss-and-shrug memoir--a bittersweet but ultimately forgiving account of his four years in Washington. In Locked in the Cabinet, to be published this month by Knopf, Reich describes his constant appeals to Clinton's conscience against the stronger pull of such personalities as then Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen and presidential adviser Dick Morris...
...Bentsen, the nephew of former U.S. Senator and vice-presidential candidate Lloyd Bentsen, won his seat in 1994 despite being outspent five to one. A moderate, labeled "White House potential" by an influential Capitol Hill publication, Bentsen devoted much of his first term to balancing the budget, achieved by cutting discretionary spending and holding the line on taxes...
Though it will be difficult to out-smart Ken Bentsen, National Merit Scholar and University of Chicago grad Perry at least has the intellectual credentials to know what he's up against. With advice also from former boss Representative Jack Fields, Perry is pushing for a balanced-budget amendment and term limits. However, Perry now encounters more opposition within his own party since seven other Republicans have joined the race...