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Harvard has had other effects on the political scene this year. The corner stone of the machine that will likely run the upstart campaign of Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot came together at Harvard...
Thomas W. Luce III, a longtime Perot associate and former Republican Texas Gubernatorial candidate, will probably play the role of campaign manager for Perot, who has not yet officially announced his candidacy. Luce was an IOP fellow in the fall of 1990 when he met James Squires, them a fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Barone Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School. Luce asked Squires to come on board as Perot's press spokesperson...
...massive political and social change. And, to be honest, such change probably won't be implemented to the extent the nation needs. Not because the American political system has become "gridlocked" or "stagnated" beyond belief, as this year's anti-politicians (namely Edmund G. Brown Jr. and H. Ross Perot) would have us believe. This has always been true...
Representative democracy is too messy for Perot--and so are the checks that go with it. If we become disillusioned with President Perot, where will we turn? To a cowed Congress? To another White Knight...
...want a guy who doesn't mind trampling on the Constitution to achieve his ends, then go ahead and pull the trigger. And if you want a guy whose accomplishments through government illustrate everything--particularly the marriage of money and power--that's wrong with American politics, then Perot's your...