Word: bentsens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these days Yepsen looks out over the rolling fields greening in the spring sun and sees nothing. "Strangely quiet," he says. Last October, Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen showed up and added his weight to a notably leaden fund raiser. A couple of months ago, Colorado's voluble Congresswoman Pat Schroeder came around for two eminently forgettable speeches at Drake and Iowa universities. Since then nary a candidate...
Quayle's competitiveness appealed to Roger Ailes, who handled him in his 1986 re-election race for the Senate. Quayle's record in debates was good until he met Lloyd Bentsen. He debated Roush five times in 1976 and Bayh once in 1980. The general view was that both men underestimated him and were beaten by him. Dan Evans, Quayle's 1980 manager, says he was effective against Bayh because he was not being "handled," as in 1988 -- the Nancy Reagan excuse about debate "overpreparation." But Quayle needed help in 1988, when he was on the defensive from the outset...
...policy of excluding women. But Senator Sam Nunn has until now preferred working on his golf handicap rather than his electoral one. By resigning last week the Georgia Democrat appeared to be teeing up for a presidential race in 1992. Of course, he can always follow in Lloyd Bentsen's cleats and rejoin his old club if he loses...
Congressional leaders, who have threatened tough trade sanctions against Japan unless it opens its markets further, greeted the Japanese pledges with practiced caution. Said Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee: "Put me down as a skeptic who has seen too many agreements in which the results don't match the rhetoric." Many lawmakers are withholding judgment until they can see signs that the agreement is benefiting U.S. companies. Observed Senator John Danforth of Missouri: "In any commercial agreement with Japan, seeing is believing...
...music." The only Democrat who can carry a tune is Mario Cuomo, but he is too liberal to pass the D.L.C. entrance exam, and since his inspiring "City on the Hill" speech at the 1984 convention, he has been reluctant to sing before a national audience. D.L.C. stalwarts like Bentsen, Al Gore and Robb have tin ears. Nunn's libretto -- defense and national-security policy -- seems increasingly irrelevant for a world rushing toward peace. The current season's high-decibel speaker, House majority leader Richard Gephardt, seems too opportunistic as he screeches out a hard-rock message of economic nationalism...