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Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, who has jurisdiction over the Secret Service, announced that a review of the shooting spree and White House security procedures would be incorporated into a study already under way. It follows September's safety scare in which a light plane crash-landed on the White House grounds and slid into the wall below the President's bedroom, killing only the depressed pilot. Meanwhile, the National Park Service, which maintains the grounds and building, is working on a long-range plan for White House preservation, tourism and work space. The White House is the world's power...
...charged with four felonies that could result in 35 years behind bars. Prosecutors indicated they were studying notes seized from Duran, as well as the statements of acquaintances, to determine whether or not the charges should be upgraded to an attempted assassination of the President. Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen announced that the review of White House security begun after the September plane incident would be intensified...
...sober Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, whose department oversees such matters, said a newly-intensified White House security review started after aplane crashed on the premiseslast month is looking at all options, including the roping off of Pennsylvania Avenue...
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...