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MORTON MEYERSON, 53, WAS PEROT'S ALTER EGO AT EDS, the man who helped put the founder's ambitions into practice and stayed on top of the details. He started in 1965 as a trainee and left the company 21 years later as its vice chairman with more than $20 million from the buyout. Since then, Meyerson has invested his time in civic projects. He headed the group that sold the Federal Government on building the controversial $8.4 billion supercollider in Texas. He spearheaded the construction of the new symphony hall in Dallas, which is named after Meyerson because Perot...
...Tribune in 1989, the editor-horse breeder moved to his Kentucky farm. Since then he has taught journalism, written a book on the press, finished one novel and started another. It was Luce, whom he met during a fellowship at Harvard last year, who brought Squires into the Perot camp. "I don't know where this will go," he says, "but it might turn out to be historic...
EACH TIME AN INDEPENDENT PRESIdential prospect rises above asterisk standing, an alarm shrieks on Capitol Hill. Sure enough, Ross Perot's strong showing in polls has prompted dozens of legislators to ask the Congressional Research Service for a memorandum on the roles the House and Senate play if no ticket wins a majority of the 538 electoral votes. The dry legalisms make that process sound easy: the House would pick the President from the top three candidates, while the Senate would select the Vice President from the leading two. But the politics of the issue are more complex and potentially...
California Democrat Howard Berman predicts that many members would be torn among three choices: following their party, their home districts or the way their state voted. As Berman sees it, Perot could benefit if Bill Clinton fares poorly in the popular vote. "A lot of members," Berman says, "might prefer this diamond in the rough to four more years of gridlock with Bush." To some legislators, every option could taste like political hemlock. Ducking the decision equals cowardice. Backing a candidate unpopular at home risks constituents' wrath. Crossing party lines imperils any politician's future in public office...
...expected to maintain control in the new Senate. But if the Democratic ticket runs third in the national election, its vice-presidential candidate would not be considered by the Senate, which must pick between the top two. The wildest scenario kicking around the Capitol envisions the Bush and Perot slates coming in first and second, the House deadlocking and Senate Democrats preventing action in their chamber. They could avoid an unpalatable choice between the G.O.P. and Perot's forces by refusing to provide the necessary quorum. In that most improbable event, the Speaker of the House (currently Tom Foley) would...