From: goldman@atlantis.eid.anl.gov (Daniel A. Goldman)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: Perot Info: VP Press Release and Stockdale Bio
Keywords: Perot vice president Stockdale biography
Date: 8 Apr 92 14:50:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: mcs.1992Apr8.145029.6867
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Organization: Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois

From the Perot Petition Committee:

PEROT PETITION COMMITTEE TO MEET STATE REQUIREMENTS
ON SELECTION OF VICE PRESIDENTIAL RUNNING MATE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Dallas, TX (March 30, 1992)

In more than half of the states, the name of a running mate must be included on  
petitions to place Ross Perot on the November presidential ballot.

In order to meet state election law requirements, Perot said today that Vice  
Admiral James P. Stockdale has agreed to serve as an interim vice presidential  
running mate until the permanent selection is made (Biography attached).

Admiral Stockdale was a combat pilot in the Vietnam War and holds 26 combat  
decorations. After being shot down, he was awarded the Congressional Medal of  
Honor for an act of self-sacrifice to protect his fellow prisoners of war. He  
is the only three star officer in the history of the Navy to wear both aviator  
wings and the Congressional Medal of Honor.

For the past eleven years, Admiral Stockdale has been a senior research fellow  
at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He has authored several  
books, including A Vietnam Experience: Ten Years of Reflection, which won the  
1985 Freedoms Foundation Honor Prize.

The Perot Petition Committee noted that more than one million citizens across  
the United States have called 1-800-685-7777 volunteering to sign or circulate  
petitions to place Perot's name on the November ballot.

"I will become a candidate for president if the American people want me to run  
as their servant by putting my name on the November ballot in all 50 states,"  
said Perot.

"I have a responsibility to meet the technical legal requirements that will  
allow the petitions to be circulated. I owe that to the volunteers.

"The selection of a running mate is a solemn responsibility. I will announce a  
running mate by the time of the two major political conventions this summer.  
Until then, Admiral Stockdale has agreed to allow his name to be placed with  
mine on the petitions, so that the volunteers can continue.

"Admiral Stockdale is an outstanding American patriot who has served his  
country in peace and in war. I very much appreciate his participation in this  
effort to let the American people be heard," said Perot.

The following states require that a running mate be named on petitions:

Alabama
California
Colorado
Connecticut
District of Columbia
Florida
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Nebraska
New Jersey
New Mexico
Ohio
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
South Dakota
Vermont
Virginia
Wisconsin




James Bond Stockdale

Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale is a Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover  
Institution who served on active duty in the regular Navy for 37 years, most of  
those years at sea as a fighter pilot aboard aircraft carriers. Shot down on  
his second combat tour over North Vietnam, he was the senior naval prisoner of  
war in Hanoi for eight years - tortured 15 times, in leg irons for two years,  
and in solitary confinement for four years.

During his naval career, his shore duty consisted only of three years as a test  
pilot and test pilot flight school instructor at Patuxent River, Maryland; two  
years as a graduate student at Stanford University; one year in the Pentagon;  
and, finally, two years as President of the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode  
Island.

At the time physical disability from combat wounds brought about Jim  
Stockdale's retirement from military life, he had the distinction of being the  
only three star officer in the history of the Navy to wear both aviator wings  
and the Congressional Medal of Honor. Besides the CMH, included with his 26  
combat decorations are two Distinguished Flying Crosses, three Distinguished  
Service Medals, four Silver Star Medals, and two Purple Hearts.

As a civilian, Jim Stockdale has been a college professor and college  
president, and is now in his tenth year as a Senior Research Fellow at the  
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. His writings have been many  
and varied, but all converge on the central theme of how man can rise in  
dignity to prevail in the face of adversity.

His most recent books are A Vietnam Experience: Ten Years of Reflection, which  
won the 1985 Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge Honor Prize for Books, and In  
Love and War, co-authored with his wife. In early 1987, a dramatic presentation  
of In Love and War as an NBC television movie was viewed by more than 45  
million Americans.

Upon his retirement from active duty in 1979, the Secretary of the Navy  
established the Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale Leadership Award which is  
presented annually to two commanding officers, one in the Atlantic Fleet and  
one in the Pacific fleet. In 1989, Monmouth College in his native state of  
Illinois, from which he entered the Naval Academy in 1943, named its student  
union "Stockdale Center." The following year he was a 1990 Laureate of the  
Abraham Lincoln Academy of Illinois in ceremonies at the University of Chicago.

Admiral Stockdale has been elected an Honorary Fellow of the Society of  
Experimental Test Pilots. He holds 11 honorary doctoral degrees.

Admiral Stockdale and his wife Sybil have been married 45 years. They have four  
sons, all of whom are school teachers. They have four grandchildren and are  
expecting their fifth.

--
	Daniel A. Goldman
	goldman@atlantis.eid.anl.gov