Word: nixon
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...these stories, if true, disqualify Perot from the White House? Probably not, since the presidency was not designed for the fainthearted. Perot's will to win is indeed intense but presumably no greater than that of John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson or, more ominously, Richard Nixon. Perot may be mulishly stubborn when he thinks he is right, but then so were Reagan and Harry Truman. A presidential election is, after all, a choice among available alternatives -- and right now Perot is not exactly competing against an all- star team from Mount Rushmore. Says political analyst Kevin Phillips: "If Bush...
...partial explanation of Perot's success is his equal-opportunity giving. In 1972 he forked over $200,000 to Richard Nixon's re-election campaign. Meanwhile, two Perot executives channeled $100,000 to the presidential campaign of Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, then chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. In 1974, according to Common Cause, Perot gave $90,000 each to the Republicans and Democrats. Although Perot has shown little regard for George Bush, he gave $8,000 to Bush-Quayle committees and $51,000 to the Republican Party between...
...Administrations Perot has embraced, he was closest to Richard Nixon's. He was on the phone to the Nixon White House several times a week in 1970 and 1971. Sometimes the subject was casual, such as imploring a White House staffer not to eat on the plane so he could dine with Perot and his wife. Other times it was serious, such as agreeing to the Administration's request that he shore up Wall Street by taking over a nearly bankrupt brokerage...
...addition to financial contributions, Perot paid the salaries of 10 Electronic Data Systems employees while they worked on Nixon's 1968 campaign. When the IRS challenged Perot for taking a deduction on his company's tax bill for his political contributions, the White House, according to a memo, was "modestly helpful" to Perot in his efforts to reach a settlement with the agency. The next year, he spent $1 million on newspaper ads and a 30-minute TV program called United We Stand to drum up support for Nixon's Vietnam policy. According to documents in the Nixon archives, some...
Perot never put up most of the money, but he got the influence he sought. The Nixon White House helped free up $308,000 from the Social Security Administration, which claimed that Perot had overcharged for processing Medicare claims. It also helped Perot win a $62,500 contract without competitive bidding, even though it was over the $10,000 limit...