More than 2,000 people attended a memorial service yesterday in remembrance of former US Senator Lloyd Bentsen. Houston Public Radio’s Laurie Johnson reports. Hundreds of people poured into the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Houston – Lloyd Bentsen, a courtly Texan who represented the state in Congress for 28 years and served as President Clinton’s first treasury secretary, died ...

Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr., a Texas patrician who made a sizable fortune in private business and an even bigger name in national government as a U.S. senator and Treasury secretary, has died, family members ...

Former Texas senator and Democratic vice presidential candidate Lloyd Bentsen has died. Madeleine Brand speaks with NPR political editor Ken Rudin about Bentsen's life and career. Lloyd Bentsen, the ...

HOUSTON – Former Senator and Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, the courtly Texan who famously put down vice presidential rival Dan Quayle in a 1988 debate by telling him “you’re no Jack Kennedy,” died ...

Lloyd Bentsen, a Texas congressman, four-term U.S. senator, Democratic nominee for vice president and secretary of the Treasury during the Clinton administration, died Tuesday at his home in Houston ...

If I say that this piece is in the tradition of the wise and witty essays of E.B. White, you may be tempted to reply: “Julia, I’ve read E.B. White. E.B. White is a hero of mine. Julia, you’re no E.B.

Lloyd Bentsen, who represented the state of Texas in Congress for 28 years and served as President Clinton's first treasury secretary, died Tuesday morning at his home in Houston, his family said. He ...

Dotty Lynch is CBSNews.com's Political Points columnist. E-mail your questions and comments to Political Points. On July 11, 1988, a group of Democrats were waiting eagerly by their phones for the BIG ...