After he left the Navy in 1957, Perot became a salesman for International Business Machines.

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.

" The CD also marked the debut of " Sucking Sound ," a political / economic song about Ross Perot and how his warnings of the flaws in a global economy, which were mocked in 1992, became somewhat of a reality by 2008, resulting in massive lay-offs and job losses.

In 1992, he became a high-level staffer on the presidential campaign of independent candidate Ross Perot.

" While the term radical center or similar expressions have been used in various ways since at least the 1970s ( like " rigorously center " by the French Giscardian movement or the Portuguese Democratic and Social Centre – People's Party during its foundation ), its use became more common due to the Reform Party and Ross Perot, who were frequently described as representing the radical middle due to their attempts to partisanize those portions of the American electorate.

Around 1330 Thomas Perot became Lord of the Manor of the estate where Parrotts Farm is today.

As a result of the EDS acquisition, Perot became GM's largest single shareholder, joined its board of directors, and immediately became a source of friction to Smith and a vocal and public critic of Smith and GM's management.

He remained friends with many prominent persons, however, including former heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali and became friends with H. Ross Perot.

Denton, along with James Stockdale ( another Navy officer who became the vice-presidential running mate of H. Ross Perot during his 1992 presidential campaign ), Larry Guarino ( an Air Force Major ) and James Robinson Risner ( an Air Force colonel ), distinguished themselves as members of the American POW resistance from 1965-1973, and helped their men accomplish their sworn goal to " return with honor " – a POW battle cry that later was used as the title of a documentary film narrated and produced by Tom Hanks.

He was present at the August 4, 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Incident, spent 7-1 / 2 years under torture as a POW in North Vietnam, later became President of The Citadel military college, and eventually ran for Vice-President of the United States with Ross Perot heading the ticket.

Perot, along with Jay Coburn, became Earthrounders when they piloted the first ever round-the-world helicopter flight.

He became independently prominent in the 1980s through his development and ownership of Fort Worth Alliance Airport and the surrounding area ( Circle T Ranch and residential community of Heritage ), a massive project that helped make Perot a powerful force within Texas.

Through a series of political and business machinations, orchestrated by Dallas billionaire, H. Ross Perot, calling upon Hugh McColl, NCNB's chairman who was his old Marine Corps compatriot, North Carolina-based NCNB Corporation became the winning bidder among several competing money-center institutions for the largest banking organization in Texas,

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.

Maya Lin, architect of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial received harassment from Perot after her race was revealed: he was known to have called her an " egg roll " after it was revealed that she was Asian.

Stockdale came to know businessman and presidential candidate H. Ross Perot through his wife's work in establishing an organization to represent the families of Vietnam POWs.

The Risner Award, created September 24, 1976, was donated by H. Ross Perot as a tribute to Risner and all Vietnam era Prisoners of War, and is administered by the Tactical Air Command ( now by Air Combat Command ).

Perot led the Texas War on Drugs Committee that proposed five laws, all of which were passed by the legislature.

Perot asserted that the United States " had grown arrogant and complacent after the War " to World War II and was no longer the world's greatest nation.

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

* On April 22, 2009, Ross Perot was made an Honorary Green Beret at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center in Fayetteville, North Carolina, that also honored the OSS, Alamo Scouts and the First Special Service Force, elite World War Two units that were inducted into the " 1st Special Forces " Regiment.

Perot helped Risner later become the Executive Director of the Texans ' War on Drugs, and Risner was consequently appointed by President Ronald Reagan as a United States Delegate to the fortieth session of the United Nations General Assembly.

** Perot / Stockdale ( I ), 19 % ( 0 Electoral Votes )

* Ross Perot / James Stockdale ( I ) – 19, 743, 821 ( 18. 9 %) and 0 electoral votes

* Ross Perot / Pat Choate ( Ref.

* Perot / Stockdale ( I ), 18. 9 % ( 0 Electoral Votes )

* Freddy Picker, former Florida Governor -( Jerry Brown ) / ( Reubin O ' Donovan Askew ) / ( Harold Hughes ) / ( Ross Perot )

This has led to the speculation that Perot acted a Presidential Spoiler by detracting votes from Bush / Quayle allowing Clinton / Gore victories in Conservative strongholds such as Kentucky and Montana.

The convention bounce gave the Clinton / Gore ticket a lead that only shrank significantly when Ross Perot re-entered the race.

The future of the Reform Party was somewhat clouded by the 1996 election results when the Perot / Choate ticket received only 9 % of the overall vote.

Archives of material from the original organization can be found at http :// www. uwsa. com / books / Uwsabook. html, but the original group founded by Ross Perot ceased to be active after the Reform Party was founded in 1995.

Jean-Baptiste Alfred Perot ( November 3, 1863 / Metz, France – November 28, 1925 / Paris, France ) was a French physicist.

They quickly notice that the spaceliner is filled with such notoriously obnoxious and mediocre celebrities as radio psychologist Dr. Laura, film director Spike Lee, grunge rock singer Courtney Love, politician Ross Perot, actor Tom Arnold, MTV VJ Paulie Shore, and actress / talk show host Rosie O ' Donnell.

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.

The relationship between Smith, Perot, and the EDS executives ruptured openly in September 1985, during a meeting in Dallas that brought the EDS executive compensation issue to a head.

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.

Opposition came chiefly from anti-trade Republicans, protectionist Democrats and supporters of Ross Perot.

In the 1996 presidential election, Clinton was re-elected, receiving 49. 2 % of the popular vote over Republican Bob Dole ( 40. 7 % of the popular vote ) and Reform candidate Ross Perot ( 8. 4 % of the popular vote ), becoming the first Democratic incumbent since Lyndon Johnson to be elected to a second term and the first Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to be elected President more than once.

It was formed by the combination of HP's legacy services consulting and outsourcing business and the integration of acquired Electronic Data Systems, which had defined the outsourcing business when it was established in 1962 by H. Ross Perot.

Billionaire tycoon Ross Perot made a donation of US $ 10 million, on the condition that it be named in honor of Morton H. Meyerson, the longtime patron of the arts in Dallas.

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.

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

Prominent businessman and later 3rd party presidential candidate Ross Perot was known to have called her an " egg roll " after it was revealed that she was Asian.

The first major outside investment was from Ross Perot, who invested after seeing a segment about NeXT on The Entrepreneurs.

NeXT's original investor Ross Perot resigned from the board of directors in June 1991 to dedicate more time to Perot Systems, a Plano, Texas-based systems integrator.

* 1863 – Alfred Perot, French physicist ( d. 1925 )

Nominees participate in nationally televised debates, and while the debates are usually restricted to the Democratic and Republican nominees, third party candidates may be invited, such as Ross Perot in the 1992 debates.