Ross Perot, brash Texas billionaire who ran for U.S. President, dies at 89
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Ross Perot, the wiry Texas gadfly who made a fortune in computer services, amazed the nation with bizarre paramilitary missions to Vietnam and Iran and ran for president in 1992 and 1996 with populist talk of restoring Norman Rockwell's America, died Tuesday at his home in Dallas. He was 89.