in the american history textbook it s going to be about 1992 and the fact that you could get 19% of the vote. i got to know mr. perot pretty well. i live in austin and i would see him in dallas, and there was a ground rule to have dinner with him. he didn t want to talk about 1992, because that s all anybody wanted to talk to him about. what he was was an independent maverick populist. he didn t really care for republicans or democrats. his hero was theodore roosevelt and he could go on at agree lengths of how he needed a tr kind of president today, somebody that could split the difference of our partisan divide. he cared deeply about our pows and m.i.a.s, people that we ve left behind in wars. i would call him the patron saint of that effort. and most interestingly, he adopted the u.s. seals as almost a pet cause. if you served in the seals, you