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Meanwhile, Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, Dukakis' vice presidential running mate, was drawing upon the memory of fellow Texan Lyndon Johnson, whose presidential library in Austin was the site for an evening campaign rally...
...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...
...uncanny political instincts. Baker brought order to a chaotic campaign that had been run by a committee of six senior advisers. "We're making decisions and sticking with them," he says. "They may not always be right, but they're being made." Yet Baker is no dictator. A tactful Texan, he never fails to seek advice from his lieutenants and listens carefully before making a decision...
Like Bush, he is a son of privilege. But the native Texan Baker -- a man who can look natural wearing an elegant suit while chewing a wad of Red Man tobacco -- manages to display the image of Eastern polish mixed with Southwestern earthiness that Bush looks silly trying to project. The family law firm, Baker & Botts, which his great-grandfather joined in 1872, is one of the largest and most prestigious in Houston. Baker was educated at the Hill ! School in Pennsylvania and at Princeton, earned a law degree at the University of Texas, and served in the Marines. Because...