Word: bentsens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Politics being the unpredictable game that it is, maybe the real candidate is someone still scarcely imagined. One nationwide poll of Democrats in late 1990 showed that their favorite choices for the party's nomination were Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, Cuomo, Jesse Jackson and Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey. And what of Bill Clinton, the man who eventually won it all? The pollsters didn't even think to ask about...
Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, who oversees the Secret Service, launched an immediate investigation into the flight and how to prevent it from recurring. Yet the threat from the air has been a secret worry for some time. The CIA often war-gamed terrorist attacks on the 18-acre White House complex and concluded each time that little could be done, short of installing unsightly Gatling guns on the roof. During the Gulf War, uniformed air-defense teams could be seen patrolling the top floor with automatic rifles or shoulder-mounted ground-to-air missiles. In theory the air-defense teams...
Hanson too was aware that her days were numbered. Her version of events surrounding the White House-Treasury contacts contradicted those of Altman and Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen. Bentsen was reportedly furious with...
...First Lady seems entirely willing to get with the program. In a press conference last week, she was lukewarm toward the Mitchell plan that her husband had endorsed, pointedly preferring the Gephardt proposal. At a private meeting with House Democrats earlier this week on trade issues, Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen was asked how much influence he had with the Clintons on health-care strategy. Bentsen held his thumb and forefinger about an eighth of an inch apart, shrugged and steered the conversation back to free-trade legislation. Says a House Democrat: "There is a sense of complete chaos around here...
...sign of bad things to come. After all, the scariest skeletons for the Clinton Administration are expected to be found in the Arkansas part of the Whitewater investigation, which Congress has yet to tackle. Sources tell TIME Washington Correspondent Suneel Ratan that Josh Steiner, Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen's Chief of Staff, will probably not have to step down. Frank Newman, a former banker and current Treasury Undersecretary for Domestic Finance, is rumored to be Altman's successor...