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...advisers, has continued to partake of Morris' counsel, usually over the phone but sometimes during private sessions in the White House residence. He even directed the Democratic National Committee to hire Morris's favorite polling firm, Penn & Schoen Associates of New York City, which worked for Clinton rival Ross Perot in 1992. Since December, Penn & Schoen has conducted surveys that compete with those of Clinton's regular pollster, Stan Greenberg...
...also wrote the economic program for Ross Perot's 1992 presidential campaign...
...rage. It's been directed at Washington and politicians this time, instead of at populism's traditional targets of Wall Street and businessmen. Stoked by radio-talk-show hosts, worshipped by fearful pols, the new populism created the movements for term limits and the balanced-budget amendment; turned Ross Perot's presidential bid from an eccentric billionaire's ego trip into a historic event; and ultimately led to last November's upheaval, in which Republicans won control of Congress for the first time in 40 years...
...There's still going to be a revolution. Don't let'em fool you. We still only have what is basically a one-party system." --Robert Van DerMass, a retiree who spoke at a meeting of H. Ross Perot's political supporters in Olympia, Wash., as quoted in the New York Times on April...
Researchers at Duke University say that the ailments collectively known as Gulf War Syndrome may have been caused by a combination of anti-nerve gas pills and insecticides given to soldiers to protect them from Iraqichemical weapons. In the $150,000 study, funded by Ross Perot, researchers gave chickens some of the combinations of chemicals that the soldiers were exposed to and found that in every case the chickens suffered nervous system damage similar to that experienced by the veterans. The preliminary findings have yet to be confirmed by further research. None of three previous studies conducted by Pentagon researchers...