The public's concern about the federal budget deficit and fears of professional politicians allowed the independent candidacy of billionaire Texan Ross Perot to explode on the scene in dramatic fashion — at one point Perot was leading the major party candidates in the polls.

Perot said his appoinment notice to the academy — sent by telegram — was sent by W. Lee " Pappy " O ' Daniel, Texas ' 34th governor and former senator.

After Apple removed Steve Jobs from management in 1985, he left the company and attempted — with funding from Ross Perot and his own pockets — to create the " next big thing ": the result was NeXT.

Perot said Americans were disillusioned with the state of politics — as being corrupt and unable to deal with vital issues — and desired a viable alternative to the Republican and Democratic Parties.

After the Federal Election Commission indicated only Perot and not Lamm would be able to secure federal matching funds — because his 1992 campaign was as an independent — Perot entered the race.

As Perot had previously done very well in debates, it was a decisive blow to the campaign when the Commission ruled that he could not participate on basis of somewhat vague criteria — such as that a candidate was required to have already been endorsed by " a substantial number of major news organizations ", with " substantial " being a number to be decided by the Commission on a case-by-case basis.

Perot did not give an endorsement during Jesse Ventura's run for governor of Minnesota in the 1998 election, and this became suspicious to detractors when he made fun of Ventura at a conference after Ventura had a falling out with the press.

In 1992, with H. Ross Perot mounting a formidable campaign, Kemp was again considered a Vice Presidential candidate.

The publicity generated put the policy on the front burner in 1992, thrusting the issue into the presidential campaign ," with every Democratic candidate and independent Ross Perot publicly promising to end the ban.

Businessman Ross Perot ran as candidate for the Reform Party with economist Pat Choate as his running mate ; he received less media attention and was excluded from the presidential debates and, while still obtaining substantial results for a third-party candidate, by U. S. standards, did not renew his success of the 1992 election.

In June, Perot led the national public opinion polls with support from 39 % of the voters ( versus 31 % for Bush and 25 % for Clinton ).

As Governor Clinton's nomination acceptance speech approached, Ross Perot dropped out of the race, convinced that staying in the race with a " revitalized Democratic Party " would cause the race to be decided by the United States House of Representatives.

The campaign continued with a lopsided lead for Clinton through September, until Ross Perot decided to re-enter the race.

In 1955, however, Perot expressed some discontent with his life in the U. S. Navy in a letter to his father.

Perot engaged in unauthorized back-channel discussions with Vietnamese officials in the late 1980s, which led to fractured relations between Perot and the Reagan and George H. W.

In 1990, Perot reached agreement with Vietnam's Foreign Ministry to become its business agent in the event that diplomatic relations were normalized.

On May 25, 1992 he was featured on the cover of Time with the title " Waiting for Perot ," an allusion to Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot.

By the summer Perot commanded a lead in the presidential race with thirty-nine percent of the vote.

Co-manager Hamilton Jordan threatened to quit, and on July 15, Ed Rollins resigned after Perot fired advertisement specialist Hal Riney, who worked with Rollins on the Reagan campaign.

Perot employed the innovative strategy of purchasing half-hour blocks of time on major networks for infomercial-type campaign advertisements ; this advertising garnered more viewership than many sitcoms, with one Friday night program in October attracting 10. 5 million viewers.

At one point in June, Perot led the polls with 39 % ( versus 31 % for Bush and 25 % for Clinton ).

Perot managed to finish second in two states: In Maine, Perot received 30. 44 % of the vote to Bush's 30. 39 % ( Clinton won Maine with 38. 77 %); in Utah, Perot received 27. 34 % of the vote to Clinton's 24. 65 % ( Bush won Utah with 43. 36 %).

Economically, however, the majority of Perot voters ( 57 %) were middle class, earning between $ 15, 000 and $ 49, 000 annually, with the bulk of the remainder drawing from the upper middle class ( 29 % earning more than $ 50, 000 annually ).

In the 2000 presidential election, Perot refused to become openly involved with the internal Reform Party dispute between supporters of Pat Buchanan and of John Hagelin.

Perot was reportedly unhappy with what he saw as the disintegration of the party, as well as his own portrayal in the press ; thus he chose to remain quiet.

Clinton won the 1992 presidential election ( 43. 0 % of the vote ) against Republican incumbent George H. W. Bush ( 37. 4 % of the vote ) and billionaire populist Ross Perot, who ran as an independent ( 18. 9 % of the vote ) on a platform focusing on domestic issues ; a significant part of Clinton's success was Bush's steep decline in public approval.

During the 1992 election, Bush and Quayle were challenged in their bid for reelection by the Democratic ticket of Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton and Tennessee Senator Al Gore, as well as the independent ticket of Texas businessman Ross Perot and retired Admiral James Stockdale.

** George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Ross Perot participate in the first of three televised debates.

The United States presidential election of 1992 had three major candidates: Incumbent Republican President George H. W. Bush ; Democratic Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, and independent Texas businessman Ross Perot.

After Bill Clinton secured the Democratic Party's nomination in the spring of 1992, polls showed Ross Perot leading the race, followed by President Bush and Clinton in third place after a grueling nomination process.

The Clinton campaign received the biggest convention " bounce " in history which brought him from 25 percent in the spring, behind Bush and Perot, to 55 percent versus Bush's 31 percent.

The race narrowed, as Perot's numbers significantly improved as Clinton's numbers declined, while Bush's numbers remained more or less the same from earlier in the race as Perot and Bush began to hammer at Clinton on character issues once again.

Perot did not support President George H. W. Bush and vigorously opposed the United States involvement in the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War.

Perot eventually stated the reason was that he received threats that digitally altered photographs would be released by the Bush campaign to sabotage his daughter's wedding.

Exit polls also showed that Ross Perot drew 38 % of his vote from Bush, and 38 % of his vote from Clinton, while the rest of his voters would have stayed home had he not been on the ballot.

Ellis County gave a plurality to Bill Clinton over Bush and Ross Perot in the 1992 presidential election, but has been in the Republican column in each of the past four elections, giving 66 percent to Republican John McCain to 32 percent for Democrat Barack Obama in the 2008 election, higher than the 57 percent McCain won statewide.

The Democratic presidential candidate has won the county in every election since 1992, when George H. W. Bush finished third behind Bill Clinton and Ross Perot.

During the 1992 US presidential election campaign, Carvey did an impression of independent candidate Ross Perot ; in a prime-time special before the election, Carvey played both George H. W. Bush and Perot in a three-way debate with Bill Clinton, played by Phil Hartman.

The year 1992 featured the first debate involving both major-party candidates and a third-party candidate, billionaire Ross Perot running against President George H. W. Bush and Governor Bill Clinton.

Independent Ross Perot was included in all three of the debates with Republican George H. W. Bush and Democrat Bill Clinton in 1992, largely at the behest of the Bush campaign.

On the October 22, 1991, edition of Good Morning America, Gibson asked Perot what Perot would advise President George H. W. Bush to do to " jump-start the economy ".