I haven’t done the research to really comment on Ross Perot, but Perot apparently only got in the ‘92 race after he had done his homework on the Vietnam War, and had gone to see Pres Bush 41 about it, and was rebuffed. Perot apparently became incensed at Bush’s dastardly involvement with Nam. This is probably hy his running mate was that former Nam POW who got it worse than McCain. (
I read it first on Roger Stone’s site — linked above. This is probably why Stone brags that “Barbara Bush hates his guts” but I am sketchy on the details other than a vague recollection during the 92 campaign when Perot was saying that Bush people were bothering his daughter at her wedding.
Someone should write about book about Perot. I remember he was also good friends with and on Apple’s board of directors or something akin.
Remember that Perot planned his own extraction, sent his his own plane into Iran and got his own people out while Carter and every US alphabet agency blithered and fumbled the ball that led to 444 days of US hostages