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...BILL CLINTON, ROSS PEROT, GEORGE BUSH...
...rare respite. For weeks, Ross Perot and Bill Clinton have been taking their campaign to almost any TV studio that would open its doors, from the network morning shows to Arsenio Hall. Last week President Bush reluctantly joined the media blitz, fielding questions from everyday folks for an hour and a half on CBS This Morning. TV's talking heads have never been so garrulous...
...news venues. When Barbara Walters talked with Bush on 20/20 not long ago, the encounter was so carefully stage-managed that her earnest voice-over ("The President's greeting was warm, his desk clear") sounded like parody. ABC's Peter Jennings aired a prime-time special last week on Perot, but the rehash of familiar material was merely a warm-up to the lively 1-hr. 40-min. "town meeting" that followed...
...Perot's appearances have the suspense of a good TV movie: Will the mysterious billionaire lose his composure and reveal a dark side? Perot made no obvious gaffes during the ABC forum, in which he fielded questions from studio-audience members in 10 cities. His testiness was apparent early on, when he opened the show by rebutting several points in the Jennings program. But he was surprisingly collected, though not particularly convincing, when a gay activist shouted out a denunciation of his stand on naming homosexuals to his Cabinet. (He is concerned, he said, that such a person would...
...Perot's TV manner has its engaging side, sprinkled with the chummy colloquialisms of a small-town businessman ("You follow me?" "Pretty simple stuff, right?"). But his humble routine is growing less convincing with exposure. One questioner compared Perot to Jesse Jackson -- both have been criticized for lack of office-holding experience -- and asked why the Texas billionaire was any more qualified to be President. "I don't claim that I am," Perot replied. "That's up to the people." Jennings prodded gently, "But surely you think you're qualified." Perot's response: "I'm not going to sit here...