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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...
Across the country in recent months, United We Stand has suffered widespread unhappiness with its founder. Some chapter leaders complain that when Perot disagrees with them, he cuts their funding and installs handpicked operatives. The state chairman from California, Skip House, predicts, "They won't get the people out working that they did in '92. Many are disillusioned...
Lowell Weicker, the former independent-ticket Governor of Connecticut who is pondering an independent run for President, credits Perot with drawing attention to political reform and to that "crazy aunt in the basement"--the federal budget deficit. But, Weicker adds, "I don't know many people of an independent frame of mind who are going to accept Perot's conditions" to run under the Independence Party banner...
Perhaps anticipating that outcome, Perot does not rule out running himself. When asked why his name and face are featured on the new party's ads, Perot told Larry King that it is "like the albino monkey at the zoo"--the freak who draws more visitors. But will Perot's familiar, grinning mug attract more voters to a third party or drive them away? It is a question only a billionaire could pursue...