Word: perots
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...Perot vs. Gore (CNN) Perhaps not since the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954 has a public figure been so thoroughly undone by a performance on television. The Vice President is no star debater, but he was good enough to expose the meanspirited bluster of the little man from Texas. The second big loser of the evening: the strangely passive moderator, Larry King...
...getting people comfortable with the idea." (That may be a tad extreme. The argument assumes, on the one hand, that people weren't already willing to elect a woman and ignores, on the other, that CiC's viewership of 15 million or 16 million does not quite reach Ross Perot's tally...
...DIED. JAMES STOCKDALE, 81, candid, self-deprecating U.S. Navy Vice Admiral who earned the Medal of Honor for his rare courage in Vietnam, and who later ran for Vice President beside Ross Perot; in Coronado, California. After leading the first U.S. air strike into North Vietnam in 1964, he was captured and imprisoned the following year at the infamous "Hanoi Hilton," where he was brutalized repeatedly over seven-and-a-half years and held in solitary confinement for four. Stockdale inspired fellow POWs, including the future Senator John McCain, with his motto "Unity Over Self" and his remarkable defiance...
DIED. JAMES STOCKDALE, 81, candid, self-deprecating Navy vice admiral who earned the Medal of Honor for his rare courage in Vietnam and later ran for Vice President with Ross Perot; after a battle with Alzheimer's; in Coronado, Calif. After leading the first U.S. air strike into North Vietnam in 1964, he was captured and imprisoned the following year at the infamous "Hanoi Hilton." As the senior officer, he was singled out by captors, who brutalized him repeatedly over 71/2 years and held him in solitary confinement for four years. Inspiring fellow POWS, including Senator John McCain, with...
...says, “Perhaps the feistiest [interviewee] was Ross Perot in 1992.” Just days after the interview—during which Perot momentarily had Russert in a good-natured headlock— Perot dropped out of the presidential race...