{"id":1090,"date":"2006-05-23T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T19:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2006-05-23T13:59:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-23T19:59:00","slug":"lloyd-bentsen-dead-at-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/lloyd-bentsen-dead-at-85\/","title":{"rendered":"Lloyd Bentsen dead at 85"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5524\/1070\/1600\/bentsen_clinton_540.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5524\/1070\/320\/bentsen_clinton_540.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5425149\">NPR<\/A>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lloyd Bentsen, a courtly Texan who represented the state in Congress for 28 years and served as President Clinton&#8217;s first treasury secretary, died Tuesday morning, his family said. He was 85.<br \/>\nBentsen, also the Democratic 1988 vice presidential nominee, died at his home in Houston.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>About Lloyd Bentsen<\/strong><br \/>\nBorn: February 11, 1921 in Mission Texas.<br \/>\nEducation: University of Texas Law School, graduated 1942.<br \/>\nMilitary: U.S. Army, 1942-1945<br \/>\nPolitical Career:<br \/>\n&#8212; U.S. House of Representatives from 1949-1955,<br \/>\n&#8212; A four-term United States senator from Texas, from 1970-1993.<br \/>\n&#8212; Unsuccessfully sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 1976.<br \/>\n&#8212; Democratic Party nominee for vice president in 1988.<br \/>\n&#8212; Treasury Secretary under President Clinton, 1993-1994.<br \/>\n<em>Sources: The Associated Press, Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From NPR: Lloyd Bentsen, a courtly Texan who represented the state in Congress for 28 years and served as President Clinton&#8217;s first treasury secretary, died Tuesday morning, his family said. He was 85. Bentsen, also the Democratic 1988 vice presidential nominee, died at his home in Houston. About Lloyd Bentsen Born: February 11, 1921 in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/lloyd-bentsen-dead-at-85\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lloyd Bentsen dead at 85<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-hA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}