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...Ross Perot was a bit tired. For months he had been traveling and making TV appearances at a more frenetic pace than when he was running for President, so he had been planning to take a break. Instead he abruptly decided to rush to Washington last Thursday to fulminate on the Capitol grounds against Bill Clinton's budget. The program was moving through Congress faster than Perot had anticipated, so he personally displayed a truckload of petitions -- bearing 2.5 million signatures by his count -- demanding that Washington cut spending before raising taxes. Minority leader Bob Dole gave Perot's show...
Here's the plot; try not to get lost. Wife of husband (Tom Hanks) dies. Husband (now Widower) is sad, and moves to Seattle with young son. Son (Ross Malinger), worried about lonely father, calls a radio call-in show. Widower gets on the phone and pours out his heart to the American people. Unmarried Woman in Baltimore (Meg Ryan) hears Widower and her heart goes out to him. She writes a letter. There's a few bumps along the way, but, surprise, Widower and Unmarried Woman get together...
...this while, her husband, Martin Ginsburg, was on his way to becoming one of the pre-eminent tax lawyers in the country (he advises Ross Perot, who endowed a chair at Georgetown Law in his name) and sharing the tasks of family life. The two had met as undergraduates during her first semester at Cornell when Marty gave a lift to a friend in his old Chevrolet to pick up a date who lived in the dorm room next to Ruth's. The minute Ruth graduated in 1954, they got married at his parents' house...
...political party start another political party? The Democratic Party is embarking on a new grass-roots venture that will compete with Ross Perot's populist semiparty, United We Stand America. In about a month, Democratic National Committee chairman David Wilhelm will launch the new community-based organization, and hopes the group -- which will use an 800 number -- will enlist local Democratic sympathizers and eventually have 2 million dues-paying members dedicated to promoting Clinton policies...
...billion a year by cutting social services to illegal immigrants and later repeated the thought, though not the number, on national TV. "When a savvy politician like Breaux does that, it tells you something," says a White House aide. There is some thought that anti-immigrant sentiment is helping Ross Perot to drum up opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement, which would create a Canada- U.S.-Mexico common market. NAFTA does not deal with immigration, and Perot has not mentioned the subject. But some analysts think he is tapping, deliberately or not, into a vein of anti-Mexican...