Thursday November 2 9:26 PM ET
Ross Perot Endorses Bush for Presidency
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Reform Party founder Ross Perot on Thursday endorsed Texas Gov. George W. Bush for the White House, saying ``he has done an outstanding job as governor'' and demonstrated the ability to lead the nation.
Perot urged every American of voting age -- but especially the 29 million people who voted for the Reform Party candidate in the 1992 and 1996 presidential elections -- to vote on Nov. 7.
``Here's a man who I have never heard anybody criticize once for improper conduct as governor, for the improper taking of funds, for payoffs, for improprieties in the governor's mansion,'' Perot said.
``He has done an outstanding job as governor and was reelected, and rarely is the same governor reelected in Texas,'' Perot said. ``I think he is clearly the better of the two men.''
Perot stressed the importance of integrity and said Bush ''has demonstrated the ability to be a person who knows how to administer and govern and have the responsibility at the state.''
He said he decided to endorse one of the two mainstream party candidates because ``in the real world'' it would be one of them that won, not the Reform Party nominee, Pat Buchanan.
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