This severely undermined Perot ’ s campaign in the 1996 election.

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.

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.

James Stockdale, the choice of third-party candidate Ross Perot in 1992, was seen as incompetent by many, but the Perot-Stockdale ticket still won about 19 % of the vote.

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.

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.

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

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.

In the 1986 miniseries, Perot was portrayed by Richard Crenna.

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.

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

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.

The debate was seen by many as effectively ending Perot ’ s political career.

Perot received eight percent of the popular vote in 1996, much less than in the 1992 race but still an unusually successful third-party showing by U. S. standards.

ISBN 1-55623-236-5 An unauthorized biography by a longtime Perot watcher.

* Perot Charts ; a blog launched June 2008 by Perot to examine different national issues with charts and graphs.

* United We Stand, H. Ross Perot ; text of the book published by Perot in 1992 to mark the launch of his Presidential campaign, complete with charts.

In the discussion leading up to the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) then-Vice President Al Gore mentioned the Smoot – Hawley tariff as a response to NAFTA objections voiced by Ross Perot during a debate in 1993 they had on The Larry King Show.

* Electronic Data Systems, a technology company founded by Ross Perot, now HP Enterprise Services

After dropping out of the race, he worked as an advisor to the campaign of Ross Perot.

The televised debates featured only Dole and Clinton, locking out Perot and the other minor candidates from the discussion.

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.

Beginning in the late 1980s and continuing in the early 1990s, Ross Perot began speaking out about what he described as the failings of the United States government.

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 January 2008, Perot publicly came out against Republican candidate John McCain and endorsed Mitt Romney for President.

Perot intended to replace Stockdale with another candidate, but did not do so before he dropped out of the race in July 1992.

The split occurred when some members of the Reform Party, believing that party founder Ross Perot had rigged the party's 1996 presidential nomination for himself, walked out of the national convention.

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.

However on the last day the convention convened on July 16 1992, Ross Perot dropped out of the presidential race and left a gap for both Bush and Clinton to scramble for newly undecided voters.

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?

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.

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.

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 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.

** Ross Perot announces he is ending his presidential campaign.

* October 1 – Ross Perot reenters the U. S. presidential election.

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.

In 1992, the presidential campaign of Ross Perot used WAIS as a campaign wide information system, connecting the field offices to the national office.

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

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.

In an April 2005 interview, Perot expressed concern about the state of progress on issues that he had raised in his presidential runs.

Matanuska-Susitna was among a few places in America carried by Ross Perot in the 1992 presidential election.

Loving County has voted for the Republican candidate in every presidential election since 1972, except in 1992 when the county backed third party candidate Ross Perot.

In the 1992 presidential election, independent Ross Perot won a plurality 36. 8 % in the county, one of three counties he won in the state.

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.

Ross Perot was a prominent advocate of EDD when he advocated " electronic town halls " during his 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns in the United States.

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.

In 2009, Dell acquired Perot Systems, a technology services and outsourcing company, mainly active in the health-sector, founded by former presidential hopeful H. 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.

* H. Ross Perot, businessman and former presidential candidate – Texarkana College

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.