LLOYD Bentsen and I grew up in the same small town in the Rio Grande Valley. But we came from different sides of the track, different sides of the color divide and, for a time, different sides of the ...

Former Texas congressman, senator, Treasury secretary and vice-presidential candidate Lloyd Bentsen has died at his home in Houston. He was 85. Steve Inskeep talks with Wayne Slater, a reporter who ...

Lloyd Bentsen, who died yesterday aged 85, represented Texas in the American Congress for 28 years and served as President Bill Clinton's first Secretary to the Treasury; but he was probably best ...

(CNN) -- Lloyd Bentsen, a former congressman, senator and treasury secretary, is dead, his family told CNN on Tuesday. The 85-year-old Texan died of natural causes at 8:45 a.m. (9:45 a.m. ET) at his ...

HOUSTON (AP) -- Lloyd Bentsen, a courtly Texan who represented the state in Congress for 28 years and served as President Clinton's first treasury secretary, died Tuesday morning, his family said. He ...

Braniff Airlines' flight number 11, a.k.a. the LBJ special, leaves Washington's Dulles Airport each afternoon at 5:35 on a nonstop trip to Austin. The flight, which Braniff introduced with some ...

Consider the mighty oaks that have fallen in Houston over the past year: Walter Mischer, James Elkins, Ben Love, Carloss Morris, Richard Johnson — the list goes on. On Tuesday, Lloyd Bentsen went to ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

AT VARIOUS times in Lloyd Bentsen's career, it seemed appropriate that he came from Hidalgo County, Texas. It was not so much that he was himself a hidalgo, the son of someone important—though his ...