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 was born in Texarkana, Texas, to Lula May Perot ( née Ray ) and Gabriel Ross Perot.

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 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.

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.

Downing Peoria International Airport " during a groundbreaking ceremony attended by Ross Perot, friend of the late Wayne A.

Despite legal action by the Perot team, and an 80 % majority of Americans supporting his participation in the debates, the Commission refused to budge and Perot was reduced to making his points heard via a series of half-hour " commercials ".

He had no formal preparation for the debate, unlike his opponents Al Gore and Dan Quayle, and did not discuss any political issues with Perot beforehand.

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.

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.

Although Perot won no state, he received the most votes in some counties, including Trinity County, California.

Since then, Perot has been largely silent on political issues, refusing to answer most questions from the press.

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.

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?

In November 1993 Ross Perot and vice-president Al Gore conducted a nationally televised debate about NAFTA on CNN which is still the most widely viewed political program in US history.

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.

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 ".

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

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 Presidential elections, Dixie County tends to vote Republican, although both Democrat Bill Clinton and Reform Party candidate Ross Perot did very well in 1992 and 1996.

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.

Party founder Ross Perot did not endorse a candidate, but his former running-mate Pat Choate endorsed Buchanan.

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

Perot and Stockdale received 19 percent of the vote in the 1992 presidential election, one of the best showings by an independent ticket in U. S. electoral history, although they did not carry any states.

Clinton was reelected in 1996, defeating Republican Senator Bob Dole and Reform Party candidate Ross Perot, who did not repeat the success of his 1992 campaign.

In 1996, Ross Perot offered to be his running mate on Reform Party ticket, but Rudman refused ( as former Democratic Senator David Boren of Oklahoma did ).

Hence the anomaly of Ross Perot standing as Reform Party candidate in 1992 and receiving 18 % of the vote, yet receiving no matching funds because the Reform Party did not receive 5 % of the vote in 1988 ; whilst Pat Buchanan, running as the Reform Party candidate in 2000, did receive matching funds despite winning only 0. 4 % of the vote.

She also did impressions of Roseanne Barr and Ross Perot in many episodes.