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Epic change is in the air: Perot could transform the two-party system in as dramatic a fashion as the fall of communism altered geopolitics. All too often, however, Clinton still acts like an old-line Democratic candidate, flying off to a Texas party dinner, courting constituency groups like the American Association of Retired Persons, and even scheduling a trip to Las Vegas next week to address an annual convention of AFSCME, the public employees union. Meanwhile, the selection of a vice-presidential candidate is probably a month away. The Arkansas Governor remains coy on the subject beyond admitting...
...when Rollins teamed up with former Carter White House chief of staff Hamilton Jordan last week to run the still unannounced presidential campaign of billionaire Ross Perot, Bush and his aides took it as a sign of personal betrayal. By turns shocked and furious, they vowed that Rollins had ruined his future in the Republican Party and accused him of caring about little more than money and revenge. Once they simmered down, a harsher reality set in: Perot had signed up a pair of veteran strategists who had helped win the White House three times in five tries and were...
...Suddenly Perot has the White House panicked. Where there was once talk of easy victory, there are now private murmurs of possible defeat. That scenario is made more plausible by a TIME/cnn poll, taken last week, that shows the Texas businessman with a 13% lead and Bush tied with Clinton for second place. With Perot's A team in place, there are growing signs of further shake-ups at both the White House and the re-election campaign headquarters, where most of the squad is regarded as decidedly second string. A senior Administration official who just days earlier denied published...
That pledge has even more resonance now that Perot has signed up two men who understand their own parties' weaknesses. The son of a California electrician who grew up in public housing, Rollins is in many ways typical of the Reagan Democrats who began to abandon the party in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Rollins worked for Reagan in 1980 and 1984, then ran Jack Kemp's ill-fated 1988 bid for the Republican presidential nomination. Still built like the high school wrestler he once was, Rollins is a nuts-and-bolts political operative who, friends say, was restless...
Unlike Rollins, whose help Perot enlisted, Jordan volunteered his services several weeks ago after watching Perot on Larry King's TV show. More cerebral than his aw-shucks manner might suggest, Jordan went to work for Carter in the late 1960s and drafted the 1972 memo that served as the blueprint for Carter's march from Georgian obscurity to the White House. Carter's campaign as an ) outsider running against Washington in 1976, notes his longtime friend Bert Lance, is reminiscent of Perot's pose as a new broom unsullied by politics...