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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...
...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 to break it off." The campaign had brutalized him. To wage the flat-out drive necessary...
...Press spokesman Jim Squires points to polls indicating a low number of undecided voters to back up his assertion that Perot must chip away at the supporters of both Clinton and Bush to win. "The task left now is to take the other guys' votes," he says. But Morton Meyerson, the chief executive of Perot's computer company, who is serving as a senior adviser to the campaign, advocates a broader appeal. "We're not going after anybody," claims Meyerson. "We'll offer up a program and invite people who find it attractive to come in and help...
...considered less reliable and certainly less pliable. "If you've got paid people working for you, you can come out with a plan and expect that it will be followed. If you have volunteers, you must meet with their approval, or they won't do it," says Meyerson...
...MORTON MEYERSON, 53, WAS PEROT'S ALTER EGO AT EDS, the man who helped put the founder's ambitions into practice and stayed on top of the details. He started in 1965 as a trainee and left the company 21 years later as its vice chairman with more than $20 million from the buyout. Since then, Meyerson has invested his time in civic projects. He headed the group that sold the Federal Government on building the controversial $8.4 billion supercollider in Texas. He spearheaded the construction of the new symphony hall in Dallas, which is named after Meyerson because Perot...