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Flanked by a posse of lawmen, some sporting ten-gallon hats, Lloyd Bentsen cheerfully introduced his running mate. The Law Enforcement Officers Association of Texas had gathered at the Fairmont Hotel in Dallas last week to endorse the Governor of Massachusetts and certify that he is not a patsy on crime. Bentsen, silver-haired and presidential, surveyed the audience with his mild and benign gaze and then said casually, "Mike, have you rented a hotel room here tonight?" Dukakis appeared slightly mystified but nodded his head. "Good. In some people's minds that makes you a Texan...
...strategy is twofold: first, play up the depressed Texas economy and have good old Lloyd persuade Texans that the Massachusetts Governor is no pointy- headed, dovish liberal but a man they can do business with. The idea is that it's not who loves America more but who will run America better. Second, debunkport Bush as a Texan and show him for the gee-whiz New England prepster that he really...
DESCRIPTION: Voters' opinion on whether Lloyd Bentsen or Dan Quayle is more qualified to be President...
...best in four years, and Bush benefits. -- Behind the rosy economic numbers of the Reagan boom, middle- class Americans feel squeezed. Once again this election poses a critical question: Are you better off? -- A backlash for the A. C. L. U. -- On the road with Dan Quayle and Lloyd Bentsen, this week' s debaters. -- Shrinking the Underclass -- a campaign essay...
...Maybe the Republican ticket wants our children to work for foreign owners, pay rent to foreign owners and owe their future to foreign owners--but that's not the kind of future Lloyd Bentsen and I want," he said...