" I like Lloyd Bentsen very much indeed, I was sad when he resigned.

" ( In 1988, Lloyd Bentsen, the Vice Presidential running mate of Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, and also a Senator from Texas, took advantage of " Lyndon's law ," and was able to retain his seat in the Senate despite Dukakis ' loss to George H. W. Bush.

As she called for the election of Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts and then U. S. Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen of Texas as President and Vice President of the United States, Richards read a letter from an unnamed young mother in Lorena who described herself as " forgotten " by the national leadership.

The term is thought to have been coined by former US Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas in 1985, when he said, " A fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grass roots and Astroturf ; this is generated mail.

( John Hospers in 1972, Ronald Reagan in 1976, Lloyd Bentsen in 1988, and John Edwards in 2004 all received one electoral vote from faithless electors, but none won these votes in a general election.

Lloyd Millard Bentsen, Jr. ( February 11, 1921 – May 23, 2006 ) was a four-term United States senator ( 1971 – 1993 ) from Texas and the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President in 1988 on the Michael Dukakis ticket.

Bentsen was an Eagle Scout and recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America.

In recognition of his success in securing federal funding, two hundred seventy miles of U. S. Highway 59, from I-35 to I-45 in Texas ( between Laredo and Houston, respectively ), are officially named Senator Lloyd Bentsen Highway.

His nephew, Ken Bentsen, Jr., was a U. S. Representative ( D ) from 1995 to 2003 in Texas's 25th District, and a U. S. Senate candidate in 2002.

* Oral History Interview with Lloyd Bentsen, from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library

According to a Washington Post article by Walter Pincus and Bob Woodward entitled Doing Well with Help from Family, Friends, ( August 11, 1988 ) when Bush was running against Lloyd Bentsen for senator in 1970, Kerr advised Bush on a proposed business deal involving a loan request from a man named Victor Flaherty, who needed money to buy Fidelity Printing Company.

He turned down an appointment as a U. S. senator from Texas for the seat formerly held by Lloyd Bentsen, who had been nominated as Secretary of the Treasury.

* Lloyd Bentsen, former Representative and former U. S. Senator from Texas, former Secretary of the Treasury, and Democratic candidate for Vice President in 1988

To which, Bentsen, a Senate veteran from Texas, responded: " Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy, Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine.

" The Washington Post quoted Bentsen describing a " mountain of cards and letters " sent to his Senate office to promote insurance industry interests, as " generated mail.

Indeed, during the 1970 Senate race, the Keynesian economist John Kenneth Galbraith endorsed George Bush, arguing that if Bentsen were elected to the Senate, he would invariably become the face of a new, more moderate-to-conservative Texas Democratic Party and that the long-term interests of Texas liberalism demanded Bentsen's defeat.

Firmly ensconced in Washington, Bentsen was overwhelmingly re-elected to the Senate in 1976, 1982, and 1988.

Bentsen was unable to swing his home state, with 43 percent of the Texas vote going for the Dukakis ticket while Bush and Quayle took 56 percent, despite the fact that Bentsen was simultaneously re-elected to the United States Senate with 59 percent of the vote.

The position became vacant when the long-term incumbent, James M. Collins ran unsuccessfully for the U. S. Senate against the Democrat Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr., of Houston.

In 1993, he had supported the conservative Congressman Joe Barton in the special election for the U. S. Senate to succeed newly-resigned Democrat Lloyd Bentsen.

White received 1, 697, 870 votes ( 53. 2 percent ) to Clements ' 1, 465, 537 ( 45. 9 percent ) in a year where Texas Democrats swept all the statewide offices being led by U. S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen ( who won a third six-year term to the Senate ) and the legendary Lieutenant Governor of Texas William P. Hobby Jr. ( Hobby was first elected lieutenant governor in 1972 ) both of whom carried the Democratic Party's statewide banner which also included the elections of Jim Mattox as state attorney general, Bob Bullock, who won his third term as Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts-having been elected in 1974, Ann Richards as state treasurer, Garry Mauro as Commissioner of the General Land Office, and Jim Hightower as Texas Commissioner of Agriculture while Democrats easily maintained their majorities in both houses of the Texas Legislature.

Bush in his losing Senate campaign against Lloyd M. Bentsen in 1970 and again in Bush's campaigns for President in 1980 and 1988.

A forceful advocate for alternative energy and trucking deregulation, Krueger was selected by Governor Ann Richards in 1993 to the U. S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Lloyd Bentsen, who became Secretary of the Treasury in President Clinton's cabinet.

Her earlier political history shows support for the Democrats during the 1980s, with recorded contributions to Democratic candidates and causes, including the Democratic National Committee, the Senate campaign of Lloyd Bentsen and the 1988 presidential campaign of Al Gore, totaling $ 3, 000.

Even U. S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen ( D-TX ), Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, whose cousin's son-in-law, John Falb, was a vice-chairman of FRBC, could ( or would ) do nothing to prevent the FDIC's action.

* 1921 – Lloyd Bentsen, American politician and 69th United States Secretary of the Treasury ( d. 2006 )

After the resignation of Les Aspin in early 1994, Bentsen was seriously considered for the position of Secretary of Defense.

In early December 1994, Bentsen announced his resignation as Secretary of the Treasury.

He was known as a moderate centrist, to such an extent that President Clinton approached him in 1994 about replacing departing Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen in Clinton's cabinet, an offer that Rudman declined.

* Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr. ( U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, U. S. Senator, U. S. Representative, Mission, Texas )

Notable freshmen included future President Gerald Ford ( R-Mich .) and future Senator, Vice-Presidential candidate, and Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen ( D-Tex.

* Reuters: " Former Senator, Treasury chief Bentsen dies " May 23, 2006

Bentsen was also on the ballot as the Democratic vice presidential nominee that year ; he could seek both offices under the 1960 " Johnson law " in Texas.

Bentsen considered running for president in 1992, but he, along with many other Democrats, backed out because of Bush's apparent popularity following the successful Gulf War ( Bush ended up losing the election to Bill Clinton ).

In 1999 President Clinton awarded Bentsen the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the nation's highest honors given to civilians.

As a primary architect of the Clinton economic plan, Bentsen contributed to a $ 500 billion reduction in the deficit, launching the longest period of economic growth since World War II.

Bentsen also was pivotal in winning passage of the 1994 crime bill which banned assault rifles.

Quayle attempted to avoid the one-sided outcome of his debate with Lloyd Bentsen four years earlier by staying on the offensive.

Classic examples of this came in 1988, when Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis chose experienced Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, and 2008, when Republican candidate John McCain picked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.

* July 20 – The Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, Georgia nominates Michael Dukakis for U. S. President and Lloyd Bentsen for Vice President.

His Democratic opponent, Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas, replies, " Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy.

Goliad is located on U. S. Highway 59, named also for the late U. S. Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen.

* Former Senator Lloyd Bentsen visited the rodeo grounds in attempt to gain support for a 1976 presidential run.

Dukakis considered Gephardt for his running mate, but chose Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen.

In 1976, Gramm unsuccessfully challenged Texas Democratic Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen, in the party's senatorial primary.

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