re: H. Ross Perot Dead At 89

I can't find the direct link but I think it involved this deal at DFW

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Bush's FAA refused to spend a bunch of money there that would have directly benefitted the Perot family's real estate investments there.

Latter after the election both Bush and James Baker said Perot ran because he was pissed off that Reagan called off the searches for MIA in Viet Nam and Reagan sent Bush to tell Perot.

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According to Bush and his former chief of staff James Baker, Perot's beef with Bush stems from a disagreement Perot had with President Ronald Reagan when Bush was Reagan's vice president. Bush agreed to tell Perot that Reagan had no reason to believe that there were Americans left in Vietnam, as Perot had been insisting.

"I think that Ross got pissed off and shot the messenger," says Baker, who also served as Reagan's chief of staff.

Bush echoes Baker's reasoning. "I think he took it very personally," he says, adding that before the incident, the fellow Texans had a warm relationship. "It got ugly and mean and I didn't like it at all."

"He did have an animus towards Bush 41 because of that episode," Baker says, though the two stop short of blaming the ordeal entirely for Perot's run.

"You'd have to ask Ross," Bush says.

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They obviously bumped heads on several occasions. Perot had a big ego.

It would have been interesting to watch him as President.