Clinton and Gore went on to defeat President Bush, Vice-President Quayle along with independent candidate Ross Perot and his running mate, James Stockdale, in the general election.

Perot ultimately lost the election, and the winner, Bill Clinton, supported NAFTA, which went into effect on January 1, 1994.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

Several months before the Democratic and Republican conventions, Perot filled the vacuum of election news, as his supporters began petition drives to get him on the ballot in all fifty states.

Co-manager Hamilton Jordan threatened to quit, and on July 15, Ed Rollins resigned after Perot fired advertisement specialist Hal Riney, who worked with Rollins on the Reagan campaign.

The next day, Perot announced on Larry King Live that he would not seek the presidency.

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.

Perot denounced Congress for its inaction in his speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D. C., on March 18, 1992.

Exit polls also showed that Ross Perot drew 38 % of his vote from Bush, and 38 % of his vote from Clinton, while the rest of his voters would have stayed home had he not been on the ballot.

Based on his performance in the popular vote in 1992, Perot was entitled to receive federal election funding for 1996.

Despite his earlier opposition to NAFTA, Perot remained largely silent about expanded use of guest worker visas in the United States, with Buchanan supporters attributing this silence to his corporate reliance on foreign workers.

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

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

* In September 2011, Ross Perot accepted the Army Heritage Center Foundation ’ s Boots on the Ground Award.

* Booknotes interview with Carolyn Barta on Perot and His People: Disrupting the Balance of Political Power, January 16, 1994.

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.

In 1992, Independent presidential candidate Ross Perot considered naming Smith, " who'd been dead for a couple of years ," as his vice presidential running mate, according to Perot's campaign manager Ed Rollins.

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.

The structure of the deal was unusual in that EDS would be owned by GM, but Smith promised it would allow Perot autonomy to run the company.

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.

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?

Smith, who had obviously ignored the irony of the CEO of the largest public corporation in the world complaining about the opulence of the private office ( which Perot had personally paid to furnish ) of a rival, had responded to Perot's frequent criticism of GM's executive perks a year earlier, " Perot's office ( in Dallas ) ' makes mine look like a shanty-town.

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

Perot eventually agreed to the deal, because, as Lee puts it, he was sold on the idea of saving millions of American jobs by helping GM fight off Japanese competition.

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

* Doron P. Levin, Irreconcilable Differences: Ross Perot Versus General Motors ( New York: Plume, 1990 )

As Perot — prerecorded and timed to give the appearance of interacting with the live Bush and Clinton — Carvey eschewed the show's signature " Live from New York " opening line, telling Bush " Why don't you do it, live-boy?

Navigation on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, where it intersects with Bayou Perot, in the vicinity of New Orleans

In the early and mid-1990s, Fulani, Newman and other IWP members joined with former followers of H. Ross Perot and other advocates of working outside the two-party system to build the New York Independence Party, an electoral third party.

* The Colonel James N. " Nick " Rowe Memorial, located in Veteran's Memorial Park in Union Beach, New Jersey, was dedicated on October 9, 2004, by friends, classmates from the West Point Class of 1960, and comrades-in arms, Among attendees were Major General Ted Crowley ( a classmate ) and Ross Perot and Colonel Rowe's widow and children.

Marie almost loses her mind, but after the concerned Prof. Perot counsels her, she rallies when she remembers Pierre's words that if one of them is gone, the other must go on working just the same.

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.

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.

Unlike Perot, however, some other third party candidates since Roosevelt have won electoral college votes.

Perot is married to Margot Birmingham ; they have five children ( Ross Jr., Nancy, Suzanne, Carolyn, and Katherine ).

As Perot had previously done very well in debates, it was a decisive blow to the campaign when the Commission ruled that he could not participate on basis of somewhat vague criteria — such as that a candidate was required to have already been endorsed by " a substantial number of major news organizations ", with " substantial " being a number to be decided by the Commission on a case-by-case basis.

Perot could not have qualified for the debates in 1992 under these rules, and was able to show that various famous US presidents would likewise have been excluded from modern debate by the Commission on Presidential Debates.

The 15 % criterion, had it been in place, would have prevented Anderson and Perot from participating in the debates they appeared in.

" 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.

In 1992, third-party Presidential candidate Ross Perot proposed that future Social Security benefits be subjected to a means test ; though this was hailed by some as a potential solution to an impending crisis in funding the program, few other political candidates since Perot have publicly made the same suggestion, which would require costly investigations and might associate accepting those benefits with social stigma.

Other guests spanned the political spectrum and have included Alexander Cockburn, Lenora Fulani, Ross Perot, and Richard C. Hoagland.

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.