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In the Studio, Perot Prepares A Last-Minute TV Assault [1]
['Ernest Tollerson']
Date: 1996-11-04
For more than a week now, Mr. Perot has sought to make Mr. Clinton's character an issue in the campaign, contending that the Whitewater inquiry and other investigations involving the Administration show that Mr. Clinton lacks the moral fiber to serve a second term. Mr. Perot, in speeches to audiences around the country, has been predicting that Whitewater and other investigations will develop into ''Watergate II'' in 1997, leading to a constitutional crisis and two years of paralysis in the Government.
Mr. Perot will close his second bid for the Presidency with a speech here on Monday at St. Mary's University. ''Like all of his other speeches, it will be an in-depth speech as opposed to a drive-by photo op,'' Mr. Verney said, ridiculing the final campaign swings by the President and Mr. Dole, the Republican challenger.
His speech at St. Mary's will close several weeks of almost daily campaign appearances by Mr. Perot, who modified the television-driven strategy he used in 1992, when he won 18.9 percent of the popular vote.
Mr. Perot turned to more traditional campaign techniques after he was unable to purchase as many infomercial slots as he wanted, and because he was excluded from the 1996 Presidential debates. Mr. Perot took part in the 1992 debates, but he was barred from this year's after the Presidential Commission on Debates said he had no realistic chance of winning the election.
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