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James Stockdale, Perot Running Mate, Dead at 81 The Associated Press Published: Jul 5, 2005 WASHINGTON (AP) - Retired Vice Adm. James Stockdale, a former prisoner of war and Ross Perot's running mate in 1992, has died, the Navy announced Tuesday. He was 81. The Navy did not provide a cause of death but said he was suffering from Alzheimer's disease. He died at his home in Coronado, Calif. In the 1992 presidential election, Stockdale became independent candidate Perot's vice presidential running mate, initially as a stand-in on the ticket but later as the candidate. Stockdale gave a stumbling performance...

Ross Perot fined for speeding in his boat By Coggie Gibbons (News from 2005-07-01 Edition) American billionaire and sometime Bermuda resident Ross Perot was fined in Magistrates’ Court this week for two marine offences. Former U.S. presidential candidate Mr. Perot, 75, of Tucker’s Town, pleaded guilty to operating a power craft without reasonable consideration on July 24 last year in western waters and speeding in a restricted area where the limit was five knots. Inspector Philip Taylor, prosecuting, told the court that a member of the public in a boat in waters off Watford Island, Somerset saw Mr. Perot’s 38-foot...

MISSOULA, Mont. -- A song honoring veterans will open the Operation Homecoming USA concert in Branson, Mo., next month. ...Carlson said the inspiration for her song was her brother, Gary, a Vietnam veteran now suffering a debilitating illness contracted during his tour of duty. Operation Homecoming USA, which will be held June 13-19, also plans to feature performances by the Beach Boys, the Fifth Dimension, the Supremes and the Oak Ridge Boys. The Doobie Brothers, Creedence Clearwater Revisited and Tony Orlando also are to perform, Carlson said. "It's the national homecoming we never gave our Vietnam vets," she said.

A desperate mission to rescue 53 American hostages from Iran ended in failure and the deaths of eight servicemen, but it is being remembered 25 years later as a turning point for U.S. special operations forces that eventually led to successes in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo and elsewhere. Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force veterans of Operation Eagle Claw, families of those who lost their lives and a support group are gathering this weekend for an anniversary reunion and remembrance in the Florida Panhandle. Mere failure turned into fiery disaster when a helicopter collided with a transport plane at...

Importance Of India Underscored By Historic Perot Systems Board Meeting Company’s Strategic Land Banking & Recruitment Focus To Provide Scalability for Future Growth March 14, 2005, Bangalore: Perot Systems (NYSE:PER), the Plano, Texas-based IT, BPO and consulting concern, is expected to underscore the importance of India and the Asia-Pacific region to its long-term growth strategy at a meeting of its Board of Directors in Bangalore later this week. The meeting is historic, as it is probably the first Board meeting of a major U.S. multinational IT corporation in India. In bringing the Board to India to review its corporate strategy,...

Buzz By Date Absorbing, wide ranging conversation on SB4 plus the general state of education Appearing at a House Public Education Committee hearing this afternoon, Ross Perot, Sr., was due to testify in favor of legislation from Rep. Kent Grusendorf (R-Arlington) on introducing more technology in schools. However, in an absorbing discussion, Perot also found time to talk about the emerging competitive economies of China and India, ball bearings, I-Pods, the Sears Catalog, and how a baby, when born into the world, has a jumble of disconnected neurons. Perot said that at one time the United States stood on top...

THE WASHINGTON TIMES As Democrats prepare for their fight against President Bush's proposal to privatize Social Security accounts, House Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer wants former presidential candidate Ross Perot to return to the airwaves with his 30-minute infomercials blasting government deficits. Mr. Bush has spent the past several weeks traveling across the country pushing his proposal to let younger workers invest part of their Social Security contributions in private accounts, and now Democrats are having their turn, holding 235 Social Security town hall meetings in coming weeks to warn people that the idea is risky and unnecessary, will undermine...

I know today is Halloween, but this election season is like something out of the "Twilight Zone". Can't you feel the insanity in the air? It's been building for four years and the Liberal Democrats are getting crazier as the election gets closer. They lost it back in December of 2000 when it was rightly and justly ruled that George W. Bush won the state of Florida and thereby won the election. Gore won the Popular vote, Bush won the Electoral vote. Looking back, I think that Gore's popular vote win was a lot more suspect, considering the voting irregularities...

Badnarik TV ads target conservative voters WASHINGTON -- The Libertarian Party launches a TV advertising campaign on Thursday that could boot George Bush out of the White House by appealing for votes from disgruntled conservatives. "Michael Badnarik is going to bring his small-government message right into the living rooms of 96 million households who have a right to be angry at Bush," said Joseph Seehusen, the Libertarian Party's executive director. "This ad tells Republican voters that the best way to get the party's attention is to patronize the competition -- and that means voting Libertarian." The television ads, paid for...

Swiftboat Veterans for Truth chief spokesman John O'Neill is supposed to be a tool of the Bush Cheney reelection campaign - at least according to John Kerry's media damage controllers. But in fact, O'Neill voted against George Bush in 2000 and against his father in 1992, O'Neill friend Gerry Birnberg tells the Boston Globe, backing Al Gore and Ross Perot respectively.

Spectators again in 2004 Posted: June 2, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 Creators Syndicate, Inc. About George W. Bush, Americans seem to have made up their minds, and enough seem prepared to replace him that this election will be about John Kerry. And the forum where the nation takes the measure of Kerry will be the presidential debates. These debates have often proved decisive. In 1960, JFK won by appearing confident, charismatic and the equal of two-term Vice President Richard Nixon in knowledge and communications skills. In 1964 and 1972, Presidents Johnson and Nixon, sitting atop mountainous leads, declined...

This is a very interesting article about H. Ross Perot. He's definitely an interesting person. I think he definitely loves his country. Here's an excerpt from the article: "Ross Perot is known around the world as the folksy dynamo who founded a computer empire and ran for president in 1992 and 1996. His colorful criticism that NAFTA would produce a "giant sucking sound" of jobs being siphoned overseas echoes today. When asked to write his own epitaph once, he answered: "Made more money faster. Lost more money in one day. Led the biggest jailbreak in history. He died. Footnote: The...

Perot Systems to increase workforce in India Perot Systems, the computer services company founded by former presidential candidate Ross Perot, is all set to add about 3,500 jobs in India and move into two new facilities there this year. Most of the growth will come from a call centre and medical claims processing business, whose employee numbers are expected to rise to 2,800 workers from 800, said a report in the Star Telegram, published from Dallas, Texas. Mindy Brown, a spokeswoman for the company, said the expansion was related to acquisitions of two Indian companies made by Perot Systems in...

Perot Systems, the computer services company founded by former presidential candidate Ross Perot, is all set to add about 3,500 jobs in India and move into two new facilities there this year. Most of the growth will come from a call centre and medical claims processing business, whose employee numbers are expected to rise to 2,800 workers from 800, said a report in the Star Telegram, published from Dallas, Texas. Mindy Brown, a spokeswoman for the company, said the expansion was related to acquisitions of two Indian companies made by Perot Systems in the past year. In July, Perot Systems...

Last August, Robert Kuttner, a paleoliberal columnist for the Boston Globe, wrote a piece declaring his political love for then-undeclared presidential candidate Wesley Clark. Saying the retired general’s entry would "transform" the Democratic race for the 2004 nomination, Kuttner admitted he was "star-struck," not least because Clark’s associates said he’d repeal Bush’s tax cuts and "revisit the so-called Patriot Act." He continued, while making absurd comparisons to Dwight D. Eisenhower: "Clark is the soldier as citizen. Even better, he’s the soldier as tough liberal. Just imagine Clark, with his distinguished military record, up against our draft dodger president [Kuttner, by...

Minutes of the Executive Committee Reform Party of the United States of AmericaSeptember 13, 2003 -Old Business:  Motion to Invite Speakers to 2003 Convention At the previous meeting, the following was moved: Mr. Lauterman moved that the ExCom formally invite Ross Perot, Jesse Ventura, and Pat Buchanan to speak at the convention.  Seconded.  Ms. Kennedy moved to amend by striking Pat Buchanan's name from the motion.  Seconded.  (Business taken up at this point) The question was called. Those voting yes on the amendment:  Ms. McKelvey, Ms. Campbell, Ms. Kennedy, Mr. CollisonThose voting no on the amendment:  Mr. Lauterman, Mr. Richardson The amendment passed.

Perot Jr.: Dallas to Delhi Interview touches on technology, real estate, basketball - and dad 02:08 PM CDT on Saturday, October 4, 2003 By CRAYTON HARRISON / The Dallas Morning News Ross Perot Jr. loves the workers he's hired in India. But he also worries about how U.S. workers will compete with them. The chief executive of Perot Systems Corp., founded by his father, Ross Perot, started developing software in India in 1996. Now every technology company seems to be interested in the country's workers, and Mr. Perot said he knows why. "India has 250 million people that speak English....

<p>For Democrats eager to retake the White House, it must be awfully tempting to view 2004 as a repeat of 1992. In that year, after all, the Republican incumbent was named George Bush, and he had just won a war, or at least a battle, against Saddam Hussein's Iraq. The Democrats went on to win their first presidential election in almost a generation.</p>

The people have called an election, and the political elites of both major parties hate it. So does big business and, for the most part, the media. But it's amazing the level of ownership real people feel over the recall. It is something they have done in defiance of California's ruling establishment...

Hey guys, Quick question. There is a rally in DC this weekend for Gulf War Veterans who were suffering from Gulf War Syndrome. A friend of mine is going to be speaking at it and I was trying to find out if C-SPAN will be carrying it. If anyone knows can you bump me.