![]() ![]() That day, he suffered a paper stock-market loss of about $450 million. ![]() It was hardly a landmark to be envied, but it was certainly one to be remembered. Yet that day Perot made a landmark in the financial history of the United States and perhaps of the Western world. More than anything else, he seemed to be a nice, promising young man who was probably selling something. Barely five and a half feet tall, with a naïve, straightforward gaze, an unamused smile, a crooked nose, a hillbilly East Texas accent, and a short crewcut tended like a tennis lawn, he was inclined to talk at length and with enthusiasm about things like patriotism and the Boy Scouts of America. Many who had met him by happening to sit next to him on airliners had not found him particularly impressive or interesting. Only a small fraction of his fellow countrymen had ever heard of him. ![]() On April 22, 1970, Henry Ross Perot of Dallas, Texas, one of the half-dozen richest men in the United States, was so new to wealth, at forty, that he was not listed in Poor’s Register and had just appeared for the first time in Who’s Who in America. ![]()
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