Debates october 15, 1992. Talking about his favorite issue, the u. S. Debt. He won 19 of the popular vote, the largest vote for an independent candidate since Theodore Roosevelt. He ran his second independent campaign in 1996 and tonight he is our focus on the contenders. Thanks for being with us. We are doing this series is a way to look at American History through the lens of president ial candidates who fail to rest for the white house but had an impact on American History. Final choice our of 14 people we are profiling in the series. Douglas brinkley joins us. A person was done a number of biographers on 20th century figures, what interest ross perot is to Mark Brinkley he had the pioneer spirit. He harks back to people like henry ford or Thomas Edison. He is not politics as usual. He really cares about the country. Patriotism has become kind of a cheap word to talk about. Ross perot was really a super patriot. He was less interested in money and politics that he was from doing wha
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