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...Democrats have never won the White House without winning Texas. Picking a Texan certainly enhances the Democrats chances of winning Texas and other parts of the South. Bentsen's conservative voting record should appeal to conservative white Southerners...
...talked convention mood and figures. As always, Kennedy wanted the latest gossip about Lyndon Johnson. He knew that I had been down with Johnson at his ranch a few weeks earlier and that I had been talking with the Texan right up to the day before. Kennedy and I agreed that L.B.J.'s late lunge at the presidential nomination would fail. But the vice-presidential nomination...
...There is no question in my mind," said Kennedy. "Lyndon would be the best man I could get to run with me. He's a Texan, a Southerner, he knows Congress, Washington, and he has the ability to be President. But I'm convinced he wouldn't take it. He'd be more powerful staying as majority leader. What do you think...
Michael Dukakis tries to unite his party and define its postliberal soul. -- Confounding oddsmakers and stiff- arming Jesse Jackson, the Duke picks Texan Lloyd Bentsen as his running mate. -- Garry Wills on the rise of the moral manager. -- Calvin Trillin rediscovers Atlanta. -- Mimi Sheraton samples the city' s culinary charms. See NATION...
These so-called experts say the choice of Bentsen, a Texan, will give the Duke some clout in the South. It will get rid of his "Look at me, I am a Massachusetts liberal" label...