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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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
By the time Perot graduated in 1953 he was president of his class and battalion commander.
By late 1954, Perot was made a lieutenant, junior grade.
Perot was refused seventy-seven times before he was given his first contract.
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.
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.

Perot and born
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.
Patrick Choate ( born April 27, 1941 ) is an American economist who is perhaps most known for being the 1996 Reform Party Vice President candidate, the running-mate of H. 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.
A son John, born about 1565, appears in an entry in the Inner Temple Register dated 5 June 1583: " John Perot, of Haryve, Co. Pembroke, 3rd son of John Perot, Knight ".
Henry Ross Perot, Jr. ( born November 7, 1958 ) is a real estate developer and Chairman of the Board of Perot Systems.
Perot was born and raised in Dallas, the son of Margot ( Birmingham ) and Ross Perot.

Perot and Texarkana
* In honor of his 80th birthday, the bridge connecting Walton and University drives in Texarkana, Texas, was named the H. Ross Perot Bridge.
* H. Ross Perot, businessman and former presidential candidate – Texarkana College

Perot and Texas
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.
The United States Reform Party nominated party founder Ross Perot of Texas in its first election as an official political party.
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 1988 he founded Perot Systems Corporation, Inc. in Plano, Texas.
In the same year that Perot organized the rescue mission in Iran, Texas governor Bill Clements requested his assistance developing policy to reduce illegal drug use.
Perot led the Texas War on Drugs Committee that proposed five laws, all of which were passed by the legislature.
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 2009, Dell acquired Perot Systems, based in Plano, Texas, in a reported $ 3. 9 billion deal, and amalgamated into Dell Services.
* September 1 – 30 – H. Ross Perot, Jr., and Jay W. Coburn fly their Bell LongRanger II helicopter Spirit of Texas around the world in 29 days, 3 hours, and 8 minutes, leaving from and returning to Dallas, Texas.
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.
Texas industrialist and former Reform Party candidate for U. S. President, Ross Perot wrote a ' blank check ' to fund efforts to save the tree.
At the request of Texas Governor Mark White and billionaire politician Ross Perot, Duncan joined the Select Committee on Public Education, and the Texas State Board of Education .< ref >
United We Stand America was the name selected by Texas businessman H. Ross Perot for his citizen action organization after his 1992 independent political campaign for President of the United States.
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.
From 2002-2003, Perot served as chairman of the Texas Governor ’ s Task Force for Economic Growth.
In March 2007, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, seeking the Republican nod for U. S. President in 2008, announced that H. Ross Perot, Jr. would serve as a member of his Texas statewide finance committee.
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,
Past recipients include Texas State Senator Florence Shapiro, television anchor Tracy Rowlett, and former presidential candidate H. Ross Perot.

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