From: b645zaw@utarlg.uta.edu (=white ribbon=)
Subject: Ross Perot and "United We Stand"  (was "will appear")
Summary: Same Old Ross 
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Organization: The University of Texas at Arlington
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 01:22:00 GMT

In article <lestrade.726339470@Ra.MsState.Edu>, 
lestrade@Ra.MsState.Edu (John Patrick Lestrade) writes...

>psmith@iies.ecn.purdue.edu (Paul Smith) writes:
> 
>>Where he will say that he is going to attempt to buy^H^H^H run for 
>>president as a Republican in '96 (deep pockets vs. Jack Kemp).  
>>Here we go again.
>>-Paul
> 
>yes, buy it with his own money -- as opposed to clinton using yours,
>Paul.  Where was Kemp this go around?  hiding...
> 
>--
>John Patrick Lestrade        
>cnesta::lestrade                       Let's try again in '96!

Talk about impatient. First comes '93, then '94, then maybe '95,
if the government isn't bankrupt from the debt interest by then.

Is Ross interested in politics? Let's flash back 23 years to 1969.

New York Times, Nov. 28th **1969** page 41+ (note the date: 1969)...
"Billionaire Texan Fights Social Ills" by Jon Nordheimer:

	Dallas -- President Nixon's campaign to articulate the
	mood of his "silent majority"  has found an ardent cham-
	pion in the person of a super-rich Dallas businessman.

	H. (for Henry) Ross Perot, a 39-year-old Texan whose
	net worth has soared spectacularly in the last two years
	to well over $1-billion, personally financed a national
	ad campaign three weeks ago in support of the President's
	Vietnam policy.

	Mr. Perot (pronouced puh-roe) estimated that the campaign,
	carried in the nation's 108 largest newspapers and on 22
	telivision outlets, cost one million taxable dollars.

	In an interview here last week, Mr. Perot said that he 
	would use the organization he formed to handle the cam-
	paign, "United We Stand" -- which consisted principally 
	of Mr. Perot and his check book -- to attack the major 
	social ills that confront the nation.

	He is prepared, he said, to spend the bulk of his fortune
	to find ways to remedy these problems and improve the 
	quality of life for all Americans.

	His first major concern, he said, will be an attempt to
	delineate the views of the "silent majority" and establish
	national priorities through the means of an "electronic
	town hall" -- a series of nonpartisan television broad-
	casts that would employ computerized polling techniques
	to canvass the national mood on major issues....

	Mr. Perot said there was no ceiling on the amount of money
	he is prepared to spend on a variety of public service
	projects he is now developing. He said he had no intention
	of using his wealth to push his own political or social
	views, which he described as non-extremist.

	"I want to put my money where my intentions are," Mr. Perot
	said... "I'm a product of this country and I feel I have
	an obligation to the American people to do all I can to
	make this a better country -- not just build a personal
	empire."

	[* * *]

	Mr. Perot now insists that he will not leave any signif-
	icant portion of his wealth to his children -- the oldest 
	is now 11 -- so "I won't deny them the same chances I had. 
	I'm really not going to leave them anything. The saddest 
	thing that could happen to me is to raise weak children
	as the result of my financial success."

	[* * *]

	Mr. Perot's immediate concern, he said, will be to turn
	"United We Stand" into a viable organization of "silent
	Americans" and examine possible methods of using tele-
	vision -- "this powerful social instrument" -- to 
	encourage dialogues and then action on the nation's
	problems.

	"There is a feeling now among all of our people that
	the problems are so big that nothing can be done about
	them," he said. "There is a human mechanism that switches
	off to unpleasant things."

Should be interesting to see how close the new campaign is to the old
goals from 1969. 

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