Lloyd Bentsen

摘要

At various times in Lloyd Bentsen's ca-reer, 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 father, "Big Lloyd" owned the vast Arrowhead ranch and the Pride O Texas citrus operation. It was not just that he himself had the courtesy and dignity, and even the height, of a Spanish grandee. It was that Hidalgo County was a place whose frontier character, swarming with cheap Mexican labour to clear the desert scrub and the palm forests in the valley of the Rio Grande, had been given a reassuring Anglo face. The towns Mr Bentsen first represented in Congress, Edinburg and McAllen and Harlingen, had names as solidly American as his own but, underneath, would have fitted fine in Mexico.