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Ross Perot put up the majority of the venture capital for Steve Jobs's NeXT computer project in 1986. Also in 1986, after heavy criticism of General Motors, which had purchased EDS, he was bought out for $700 million. In 1988, he founded Perot Systems Corporation, Inc. in Plano, Texas. His son, H. Ross Perot, Jr., eventually succeeded him as CEO. Today, H. Ross Sr. serves as Chairman Emeritus, and Ross Jr. serves as Chairman.
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Maverick Texas businessman H. Ross Perot wants to revolutionize America's historic two-party system if not as president then as founder of the fledgling Reform Party. Despite his rocky on-off-on-again presidential bid, Perot managed in 1992 to steal 19 percent of the vote -- the best third-candidate showing since Teddy Roosevelt's Bull Moose run in 1912. With that momentum and a billion in the bank, the feisty founder of Dallas-based Electronic Data Systems Corp. embarked on party building, energizing some 1.3 million disenfranchised voters, all the while insisting the effort "isn't about me."
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Perot was not a fan of President George H. W. Bush and vigorously opposed America's involvement in the 1990-1991 Gulf War. He urged Senators to vote against the war resolution and began considering a Presidential run. On February 20, 1992, he appeared on CNN's Larry King Live and announced his intention to run if his supporters could get his name on the ballot in all 50 states. He became a viable competitor and soon polled even with the major competitors. Discouraged by a reinvigorated Democratic party ticket of Bill Clinton and Al Gore after the Democratic National Convention, Perot announced his withdrawal from the campaign, but in September he qualified for all 50 state ballots. On October 1, he announced his intention to run again.
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Perot's candidacy received increasing media attention when the competitive phase of the primary season ended for the two major parties. President George H.W. Bush was losing support, and Democratic nominee Bill Clinton was still suffering from the numerous scandal allegations made in the previous months. With the insurgent candidacies of Republican Pat Buchanan and Democrat Jerry Brown winding down, Perot was the natural beneficiary of populist resentment toward establishment politicians. On May 25, 1992 he was featured on the cover of Time Magazine with the title "Waiting for Perot", an allusion to Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot.[5]
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--> Perot Systems, the IT services firm founded by one-time presidential candidate H. Ross Perot, is looking to expand its presence in the shadowy defense and intelligence markets. To that end, the company has hired David Szady, a former CIA official and FBI agent, to head its efforts in those areas.
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"Bloomberg is H. Ross Perot on steroids," said former Federal Election Commission Chairman Michael Toner. "He could turn the political landscape of this election upside down, spend as much money as he wanted and proceed directly to the general election. He would have resources to hire an army of petition-gatherers in those states where thousands of petitions are required to qualify a third-party presidential candidate to be on the ballot."
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