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He Knew Jack Kennedy, He Served With Jack Kennedy

David Weigel | 5.23.2006 11:24 AM

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Former Texas Senator and Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, utterer of the most devastating one-liner in vice presidential (or just plain presidential) debate history, is dead at age 85.

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David Weigel is a contributing editor at Reason.

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