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...campaign speeches, often to the detriment of serious political dialogue. Who could forget Clinton's "I didn't inhale" or Bush's tribute to that famous country-western band, the "Nitty Ditty Nitty Gritty Great Bird"? Dan Quayle's little boo-boos already fill a book (Quayle Hunting). Perot was officially undone as soon as he called the NAACP "you people...
Sometimes Perot's complaints involved real business issues. In 1968 Perot cried vigorously about IBM's refusal to let him purchase equipment on credit, yet records show that he consistently refused to provide even limited financial data in order to prove he was creditworthy. Nonetheless, several months later, EDS filed a public prospectus that included reams of financial data. In March 1968, Perot wanted to buy IBM equipment that he was leasing, but he demanded that the deal be retroactive to the first of the month, which would save EDS three weeks' worth of rental payments, or $28,000. "When...
...result, Perot threatened to sever all ties with IBM, prompting the company to concede the $28,000 and apologize for any misunderstanding. "Perot then specifically asked for me to return to do business with him, but I refused," says Wilson. "He basically created that crisis and trampled on me to get what he wanted. And I found that totally immoral and unacceptable." As Aubrey Wilson and his colleagues at IBM have apparently learned, it's hard to be a billionaire and a Boy Scout at the same time...
...ROSS PEROT: His Days at IBM in Dallas...
...insists on flogging his fortune at his fellows, it is not nice to refuse. For example, it would be exceedingly rude for Americans to deny a billionaire simply because he wants to buy the presidency for $100 million and occupy what would thenceforth be known as the Ross Perot Memorial White House...