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OCR Page 1 of 59Super ONE Rich Texan Fights Social Ills
By JON NORDHEIMER
Special to The New York Times
DALLAS-President Nixon's
campaign to articulate the
mood of his "silent majority"
has found an ardent cham-
pion in the person of a super-
rich Dallas businessman.
H. (for Henry) Ross Perot,
a 39-year-old Texan whose
net worth has soared spec-
tacularly in the last two years
to well over $1-billion, per-
sonally financed a national
ad campaign three weeks ago
in support of the President's
Vietnam policy.
Mr. Perot (pronounced puh-
ROE) estimated that the cam-
paign, carried in the nation's
108 largest newspapers and
on 22 television outlets, cost
one million taxable dollars.
In an interview here last
week, Mr. Perot said that he
would use the organization
he formed to handle the cam-
paign, "United We Stand"-
which has consisted princi-
pally of Mr. Perot and his
check book-to attack the
major social ills that con-
front the nation.
The Quality of Life
He is prepared, he said, to
spend the bulk of his fortune
to find ways to remedy these
problems and improve the
quality of life for all Ameri-
cans.
His first major concern, he
said, will be an attempt to
delineate the views of the
"silent majority" and estab-
lish national priorities, pos-
sibly through the means of
an "electronic town hall"-a
series of nonpartisan tele-
vision broadcasts that would
employ computerized polling
techniques to canvass the na-
tional mood on major issues.
As president and chairman
Shel Hershorn for The New York Times
of the board of Electronic
H. Ross Perot, a former International Business Machines salesman, who started Electronic
Data Systems Inc., a Dallas-
Data Systems seven years ago and has had vast success, tells of his pro-Nixon campaign.
based computer "software"
company that designs and op-
erates information systems
for customers across the na-
tion, Mr. Perot owns 9,327,4
000 of the company's 11,424,-
385 outstanding shares.
One share of E.D.S. now
sells for $138. Mr. Perot's
holdings - the paper value at
least - amount to $1,287,-
126,000.
There is no doubt that the
former International Business
Machines salesman who start-
ed E.D.S. seven years ago
with an initial investment of
only $1,000 has emerged as
one of the world's wealthiest
men.