CANDIDATES '76
This is the second of a series examining the declared and occasionally undeclared candidates for the presidency. The series began with Arizona Congressman Morris Udall (TIME, Aug. 25).
Everybody's second choice. That seems to be the presidential strategy of Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen, 54, who has plans of emerging as the compromise nominee after the front runners falter and the Democratic Convention is deadlocked. A multimillionaire Texas businessman who is not given to quixotic pursuits, Bentsen has tried to hug the middle of the road more closely than any other candidate. A...
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