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GEORGE BUSH HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN UPBEAT, WHISTLE-WHILE-you-work, stay-the-course kind of guy. Yet top aides to the President say he is depressed about his political position, running behind Ross Perot in nationwide opinion surveys, and despondent that his "loyal" advisers are bad-mouthing him to the press. "These guys tell him where to go, what to do, how to stand, what to say," says one Bush confidante, "and when none of it works, they turn around and blame him." Even old friends in Texas are sending rumblings to Washington that Bush might not have...
Call it the Perot complex: a successful businessman achieves great wealth early in life and casts about for a higher mission. He sees the paralysis gripping a big national problem and decides the only course is radical change. Ross Perot wants to change the country from the White House; Chris Whittle wants to alter the future from your child's classroom...
CONRAD: I just got off the phone with Ross Perot before coming here, and there will be an announcement on Friday. ((Laughter.)) No, I've told people back home I don't rule anything in or anything out. I'm 44 years old, so I'm too young to make Shermanesque statements...
...election-year politics dictate his decision, but Ira Kurzban, lawyer for Miami's Haitian Refugee Center, believes otherwise. "The Haiti policy," he says, "plays to the basest part of the Republican Party, the anti-alien group, the racists, to keep them from crossing over to Ross Perot...
...Perot's notion of electronic town meetings would work...