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...Barney Frank '61-'62 (D-Mass.); Meredith E. Bagby '95, an advisor to presidential candidate H. Ross Perot; David Wilhelm, former chair of the Democratic National Committee; and Susan Weld, the wife of Gov. William F. Weld '66, are among speakers scheduled...
Institutionally, however, Perot succeeded. None of the other major third-party candidates of the 20th century--Teddy Roosevelt, Robert LaFollette, George Wallace and John Anderson--came back to run again four years after their first race. The task is too challenging. But Perot did come back, did get on ballots in all 50 states and even renewed some personal credibility late in October, when the sad state of campaign finances and evidence of two-party corruption made him prophetic on yet another issue. More important, the 8% of the national vote Perot drew on Nov. 5 qualifies his Reform Party...
Over a six-month period beginning in September 1995, Ross Perot held a series of private meetings with fellow supporters of the third-party movement, ostensibly seeking their advice on whether and how to run again for President. Consistently, the group, which included former Connecticut Governor and Senator Lowell Weicker and New York businessman Thomas Galisano, warned Perot that if he ran again, he could no longer be a one-man band. This time, the advisers said, he had to bring national-level politicians into the fold. He had to listen to their policy prescriptions and incorporate their ideas into...
...Perot chose to ignore the advice, and in doing so he squandered what might have been one of the most powerful opportunities in modern political history. The majority of Americans have consistently said they would welcome a President who is neither a Republican nor a Democrat. Distrust of government, while down from peak levels, is still staggeringly high. Perot, the consummate gadfly, could have been a contender...
...Thurber of American University in Washington put it, just plain "weird." For most of 1996 he gave lip service to his advisers' words that the election "is not about me." But a day after former Colorado Governor Dick Lamm announced that he would seek the Reform Party's nomination, Perot entered the race and proved that it really was about him. And by accepting $29 million in taxpayer money to fund his general-election campaign--just like any other pol--he undermined his credibility both as an outsider and as a deficit hawk...