Campaign Reform and Ross Perot
Ross Perot’s latest chant--that he withdrew from the presidential race to head off a Republican plan to embarrass his daughter--may be picked up by the choir but should have the congregation heading for the doors. Perot’s often documented paranoid streak may be a mere eccentricity for a billionaire businessman, but it is a dangerous quality for a President. A precedent is President Nixon’s less pronounced paranoia that resulted in Watergate and a failed presidency.
LARRY I. STEIN
Pomona
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