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unusual facts about Lloyd Bentsen



Baine Kerr

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.

Mary Evelyn Parker

Strother has worked almost exclusively for Democrats, including Texas Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr., and former Georgia Governor Roy Barnes.

Sound bite

said by Lloyd Bentsen as a retort to Dan Quayle's comparison of himself to Jack Kennedy in terms of political experience


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