Word: mates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said he'd vote for Bush because he dislikes Dukakis. "I'm afraid he's going to have Jesse Jackson as a running mate and I'm not ready for that," he says...
...Republicans and the Democrats are wooing Southern voters: the GOP Convention is being held in New Orleans, while the Democrats are meeting this week in Atlanta. Bush, a nominal Texan, is stressing his Southern roots, while Dukakis has picked a Southerner, Sen. Lloyd Bentsen of Texas, as his running mate. But the folks down here don't seem impressed...
With his landslide victory in the California primary last month, Dukakis clinched the top spot. And he's already chosen his running mate, Sen. Lloyd M. Bentsen of Texas. So there's not a lot of suspense here, aside from the Jackson-Dukakis brouhaha which seems to have passed...
...Dale Bumpers of Arkansas, who seriously considered running for president himself, praised Dukakis for picking Texas Sen. Lloyd M. Bentsen as his running mate. "Without a doubt, without question, [the Dukakis Bentsen ticket] is going to do well in the South. Bentsen is a very good choice for the South...
They say that Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, the Democratic presidential candidate, chose Texas Sen. Lloyd M. Bentsen as his running mate because he wants to repeat history. Look what the late John F. Kennedy '40 did in 1960 with Lyndon B. Johnson...