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...addition to financial contributions, Perot paid the salaries of 10 Electronic Data Systems employees while they worked on Nixon's 1968 campaign. When the IRS challenged Perot for taking a deduction on his company's tax bill for his political contributions, the White House, according to a memo, was "modestly helpful" to Perot in his efforts to reach a settlement with the agency. The next year, he spent $1 million on newspaper ads and a 30-minute TV program called United We Stand to drum up support for Nixon's Vietnam policy. According to documents in the Nixon archives, some...
...Perot never put up most of the money, but he got the influence he sought. The Nixon White House helped free up $308,000 from the Social Security Administration, which claimed that Perot had overcharged for processing Medicare claims. It also helped Perot win a $62,500 contract without competitive bidding, even though it was over the $10,000 limit...
...operating inside the corridors of power, Perot has not broken any laws. The Constitution protects the right of citizens to go wingtip to wingtip with their leaders. But if there is anything voters are asking of those who would be President this time around, it is that they be honest about who they are. At the moment, the poetry of the Perot campaign -- what he is selling and thousands of volunteers are buying -- is the image of a Texas outrider ready to represent the little guy against the power brokers and reclaim the country from moral paralysis...
BRAVING A SWELTERING SPRING SUN, 2,000 ROSS Perot zealots lugged 90 cardboard boxes stuffed with signed petitions up the lawn to the Texas Capitol last week in an effort to put the billionaire on the state's presidential ballot. This well-scripted media spectacle, festooned with flapping flags, balloons and bunting, marked the unofficial unannouncement of the uncandidate. In only nine weeks, Perot, who has qualified for four other state ballots, collected more than 200,000 signatures in Texas -- four times what he needed -- and that's a chilling omen for Bush and Democratic challenger Bill Clinton...
...airplane trailing a perot for president banner buzzed overhead, a frenzied crowd, some wearing ROSS FOR BOSS T shirts, cheered the diminutive man who they believe can clean up the mess in Washington. "Change means starting over, not just remodeling the house," declared Austin housewife Alida Anton. Many Americans agree with her that it may be time to hire a new contractor: a TIME/cnn poll showed Perot at 33%, Bush at 28% and Clinton at 24%. (See cover stories beginning on page...