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From the beginning, Perot chafed at the arrangement. Rollins, in charge of day-to-day operations, drafted an expansive budget of $150 million, including a direct-mail campaign and broadcast advertising. But Perot's two longtime business associates, Tom Luce and Morton Meyerson, decided that it would be prudent if they, rather than Rollins and Jordan, presented the spending plan to Perot. Luce feared a volcanic reaction from the boss and wanted to spare the new recruits...
Last Wednesday morning, a mediation attempt by Luce having failed, Rollins quit. Jordan was named the sole manager, and Luce announced that the campaign would continue. In fact, Perot had been thinking for a day or two about withdrawing but told no one. Perot canceled two appearances scheduled for later in the week and took counsel with himself. That night Perot met with Luce and Meyerson. Though they talked for an hour, Perot's mind was already made up. Meyerson made the case for fighting on. "This is what I'm going to do," Perot replied. "I'm going...
Founders: Briton Hadden 1898-1929 Henry R. Luce...
...founder of Time, Henry Luce, would snort at the notion that his company should provide a value-free forum for the exchange of ideas. In Luce's system, editors were supposed to make value judgments and promote the truth as they saw it. Time has moved far from its old Lucean rigidity -- far enough to allow for dissenting essays like this one. That evolution is a good thing, as long as it's not a handy excuse for abandoning all standards...
...aides out of the loop and playing one man against another. While he has allowed the political experts to plan among themselves, some in the campaign are worried that Perot might blow his stack if things begin to go wrong. In April he dressed down campaign chairman Tom Luce for not providing adequate briefing data during the taping of an interview. "Ross can only hold himself so long," predicts an ex-employee. "He'll nail someone on national television, and the public will be aghast...