>> 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