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...ROSS PEROT PITCHES HIMSELF AS A MAN OF THE PEOPLE, WITH the people helping him, in true grass-roots fashion, to get on the ballot. But as Perot gathers strength, the little people are finding themselves pushed out by local bigwigs. In Virginia a Perot backer says he was ousted, partly over his desire to include more blacks in the campaign. One Oklahoma activist, wary of losing control to local heavies, says he's keeping 35,000 petition signatures in a bank vault until he delivers them to state election officials. The Perot campaign insists that it is not trampling...
Imagine it is 1994. The economy is still stagnating, Japan remains in the doldrums as well, interest rates are rising, and the deficit has reached $600 billion. Something has to be done -- and quickly. President Ross Perot, making good on a campaign promise, gets on the horn to the TV networks and organizes one of his famous electronic town meetings. That night, before a television audience Murphy Brown would die for, he lays out the nation's precarious economic situation and the stark choices the U.S. confronts. Even before his presentation is over, the returns begin to pour...
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...
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...
...short, 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...