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...Perot, vacationing in London, got news that Bradford National Corp., a New York-based firm, had wrested a Texas Medicaid contract away from EDS. Perot could not accept the idea that EDS had lost fairly. He flew back to convene an EDS meeting in Dallas, at which, says author Mason, "eavesdroppers outside the third-floor conference room heard him shouting, 'I want to find the son of a bitch who let this happen and get him out of the company!' " Though the principal question was whether EDS or Bradford had submitted the lower bid, Perot and his aides...
...Souljah at an "emergency" meeting of Jackson's "rainbow coalition." Speaking of himself in the third person (an affectation common to megalomaniacs), Jackson denounced Clinton's courage as a "Machiavellian maneuver" designed "purely to appeal to conservative whites by containing Jackson and isolating Jackson." So Jackson is flirting with Perot and also promises a huge rally at the Democratic Convention in July, where he may even encourage his nomination for Vice President, three moves he would of course deny taking in order to "contain or isolate" Clinton...
COVER: The Other Side of Ross Perot...
...elected constable someday." The ideal of the noble citizen reluctantly laying down his plow to spend a few years cleaning up his government is deeply appealing to most Americans, especially now during this open season on professional politicians. Such sentiments account for the burst of enthusiasm greeting Ross Perot and for the best-sellerdom that inevitably awaits David McCullough's loving and richly detailed megabiography of Truman...
...search for historic analogies to the Perot phenomenon, Truman's name is often cited, sometimes by Perot himself. On the surface, the comparison makes sense. Both men were feisty bantams, unvarnished, blunt and unplagued by the shadows that afflict the excessively reflective. But there is, in fact, a fundamental difference: unlike the computocratic uncandidate, Harry Truman was an unabashed politician, one who relished all the trappings, from honest patronage to whistle-stop campaigning. A doggedly unsuccessful dirt farmer and failed haberdasher, he entered politics out of need for a job and rose from the county courthouse to the Senate clubhouse...