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Bush was, after all, a sitting vice president, and no sitting vice president had captured the Oval Office since Martin van Buren did it in 1836. Plus, he was facing a Democratic Boston-Austin ticket of Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen. In 1960, this same geographical combination--John F. Kennedy '41 and Lyndon Baines Johnson--defeated Richard Nixon, the last sitting vice president to lose a presidential election. That seemed like a crippling amount of historical baggage to carry in a campaign...
That Clinton has in fact come so close might easily be ascribed primarily to luck. After all, the heftiest Democrats -- men like Mario Cuomo, Lloyd Bentsen and Dick Gephardt -- decided to sit the election out, leaving Clinton to battle a field of second-stringers for the nomination. Ross Perot, having done much to focus voter discontent with Bush, abruptly pulled out of the race in July, dramatically boosting Clinton's lead in the polls during the Democratic Convention. Bush helped Clinton by handing his own convention over to right- wing extremists and by running a clumsy, unfocused campaign until...
Representative Vin Weber, a Minnesota Republican whose political advice Bush values, bluntly recalls that Quayle "wasn't a popular choice in 1988, and suffered by contrast with ((Democratic vice-presidential nominee)) Lloyd Bentsen, and it didn't make any difference to the outcome." Says William Bennett, a former Cabinet member who remains close to Bush and Quayle: "When George Bush was at 85% in the polls, was Dan Quayle doing anything differently? No. Quayle has not set the world on fire, but he has done his job. He has been loyal, and he has appeal to the conservative base." Bennett...
...pack, with a net worth of at least $19 million (thanks mostly to wife Lynda Bird Johnson's family holdings). Among the other wealthiest Democrats: Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island (net worth: $13.7 million), Herb Kohl of Wisconsin ($12.7 million), Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia ($8.7 million), Lloyd Bentsen of Texas ($5.8 million), Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts ($2 million) and Bob Kerrey of Nebraska ($1.5 million...
...Lloyd Bentsen said not long ago that George Bush must be a real Texan because "he can rope, tie and brand a lobster with the best of them." Now a New Jersey farming community has discovered that its cows like to eat clams and other seafood. Get ready for Bush Burgers: surf and turf...