Perot accepted the buyout, but publicly denounced the expenditure as outrageous at a time GM was closing plants and laying off workers.

In 1992 almost all Democrats elected to Congress won more votes in their congressional districts than the party's Presidential candidate, Bill Clinton ; this may have had to do with the presence of a strong third-party presidential candidate, Ross Perot.

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.

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.

Just over 100, 000 votes were cast for all other candidates, half of which were write-in votes for H. Ross Perot

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

Perot severely damaged his credibility by dropping out of the presidential contest in July and remaining out of the race for several weeks before re-entering.

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

Henry Ross Perot (; born June 27, 1930 ) is a U. S. businessman best known for running for President of the United States in 1992 and 1996.

Perot Systems was bought by Dell for $ 3. 9 billion in 2009.

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

In 1974 Perot gained some press attention for being " the biggest individual loser ever on the New York Stock Exchange " when his EDS shares dropped $ 450 million in value in a single day in April 1970.

In 2007, it was sold by the Perot Foundation, in order to provide " for medical research, for improving public education and for assisting wounded soldiers and their families.

In September 2009, Perot Systems was acquired by Dell for $ 3. 9 billion.

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.

In July, while Perot was pondering whether to run for office, his supporters established a campaign organization United We Stand America.

Perot was late in making formal policy proposals, but most of what he did call for were intended to reduce the deficit.

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 ).

The United States Reform Party nominated party founder Ross Perot of Texas in its first election as an official political party.

Later, Perot Systems adopted WAIS to better access the information in its corporate databases.

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

He gave Perot a framed picture of Smoot and Hawley shaking hands after its passage.

Dell has grown by both increasing its customer base and through acquisitions since its inception ; notable mergers and acquisitions including Alienware ( 2006 ) and Perot Systems ( 2009 ).

" 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.

Perot gladly accepted the mission and while in the air between Texas and Italy the Italian government heard about the private rescue mission and was thereby convinced that in order to avoid severe diplomatic problems originating from the capture of several foreign armed mercenaries on its sovereign homeland they would launch their own rescue mission.

Lagging in the polls by double digits to the Clinton-Gore team after a successful Democratic Convention, and with Ross Perot temporarily out of the race, the Republican Party worked hard to rally its base of social conservatives.

The Center is named for Morton H Meyerson, arts patron and business partner of Ross Perot, who provided $ 10 million in funds for its construction.

In 1984 Smith oversaw General Motors ' acquisition of Electronic Data Systems from its founder Ross Perot for $ 2. 55 billion, serving two purposes.

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.

In presidential races, Georgia has not given its electoral college votes to the Republican candidate only four times since 1964: in 1968, segregationist George Wallace won a plurality of Georgia's votes on the American Independent Party ticket ; former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter won his home state by landslide margins in 1976 and 1980 ; and then-Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton won a plurality of votes in 1992 against incumbent Republican George H. W. Bush and Independent Ross Perot.

Peter Altabef ( born 1959 ) was the president of Dell Services, a business unit of Dell Inc. From 2004, he was the president and CEO of Perot Systems until its acquisition by Dell in November 2009. Peter has decided to step down as president of Dell services ( formerly perot systems.

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.

Although Perot easily won the nomination, his victory at the party's national convention led to a schism, as supporters of his opponent, former Governor Richard Lamm of Colorado, accused him of rigging the vote to prevent them from casting their ballots.

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.

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.

As Steve Jobs lost the original power struggle at Apple and left to found NeXT, his angel investor was Perot who invested over 20 million dollars because he believed in Jobs and did not want to miss out as he had when had the chance to invest in Bill Gates ' fledging Microsoft.

Although his answers during the debates were often general, many Democrats and Republicans conceded that Perot won at least the first debate.

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.

* 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.

* On Oct. 2, 2010, Perot was given the William J. Donovan Award from the OSS Society at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington, D. C.

There are also seven panels and detailed history and explanation of ENIAC functions using text, graphics, photographs and interactive touch screen on display at the Perot Group in Plano, Texas.

* In 1996, the town gave 45 percent to Clinton, with Perot polling at a significantly above-average 39 percent, but lost to Bill Clinton, with Republican Bob Dole coming in a distant third.

Clinton ’ s re-election campaign in 1996 maintained high Jewish support at 78 %, with 16 % supporting Bob Dole and 3 % for Perot.

A luxury suite at the Loews Annapolis Hotel, where Perot announced his candidacy, was named in Stockdale's honor.

When the 1996 election season arrived, Perot at first held off from entering the contest for the Reform Party's presidential nomination, calling for others to try for the ticket.

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.

Perot stated that the U. S. helped Germany and Japan write their respective nations ' constitutions: " This was at a time when the industrial revolution had occurred.

This caused a moderate turn of events at the convention to win back Perot Voters from the Perot Campaign.

What ensued was one of the most vitriolic corporate battles of the 1980s, with Perot and Smith publicly exchanging barbs using the media, which delightedly splashed the story over every business publication in the U. S .. Perot notoriously lashed out at Smith in a 1988 exclusive to Fortune Magazine, saying: " My question is: Why haven't we unleashed their potential?

* 1996-Ross Perot ( Patriot Party )-Party name at time see above

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.