Bill Clinton: “Thank you very much. My longtime friend Garry Mauro, and Chairman and Mrs. Wilhelm, Mayor and Mrs. Lanier, Secretary and…”

“Thank you very much. My longtime friend Garry Mauro, and Chairman and Mrs. Wilhelm, Mayor and Mrs. Lanier, Secretary and Mrs. Bentsen. I want to say that I have a lot to be grateful to Texas for, big victory in the primaries here, an enormous amount of support, a lot of friends. But I think I probably owe you most for Lloyd Bentsen and Henry Cisneros. I want to say also how much I appreciate two other Texans in my administration, one of whom is here and one is not, the Secretary of the Navy, John Dalton, from San Antonio, and my good friend, the Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Bob Armstrong, who has done a wonderful job for you and for us in America. When we had that terrible earthquake recently in California, Henry Cisneros was there before the aftershocks stopped. And people told me over and over again, ``The last time this happened to us we had to go to Washington to find the Cabinet. Now you've got a Secretary who came to us, who's committed to us.'' That's the kind of job he's doing up there. It's been a long time since an American Treasury Secretary has enjoyed anything approaching the prestige that Lloyd Bentsen has earned all over the world, in Asia, in Europe, in Latin America, and of course, here in the United States and in the Congress. I cannot say enough about him in front of you, his constituents, for all the advice he's given, all the leadership he's shown, and all the trouble he's kept me out of. [Laughter] I want to thank him so much.…”