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Wednesday, June 3,1992
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Perot campaign heats up
Kirkpatrick rumored to be top contender for running mate
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Former U.N. ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick is being sounded out as a potential running mate for unannounced independent candidate Ross Perot. Republican sources say.
A perotrepresentative called such speculation premature.
ney're having hot and heavy conversations with Kirkpatrick," one source said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
Kirkpatrick has been believed to be on Perot's short list for some time. GOP sources not directly connected with the Perot effort said that interest in her on the part of Perot's lieutenants has sharpened recently.
In Dallas, Perot representative James Squires said that a lot of people were being promoted for vice president. But he said serious discussions were not yet taking place with anybody.
place wimily today.
Kirkpatrick did not return a phone call but was quoted by the New York Daily News in Monday's editions as saying she might support Perot.
While declining to comment on whether she had been approached by Perot or his top aides, she told the newspaper, "I agree with whoever thinks that Perot and I can be a great team."
Meanwhile, final negotiations were reportedly under way between Perot and two political veterans he apparently hopes to hire to manage his general election campaign. Democrat Hamilton Jordan and Republican Ed Rollins.
Both net in Dallas with Perot over the past two days. Jordan, former campaign manager and chief of staff to President Carter, is currently vice chairperson of White Communications in Knoxville, Teen.
Rollins is a Washington political consultant who managed President Reagan's 1984 re-election campaign. Neither Jordan nor Rollins returned phone calls.
Neither Jordan nor Koums returned phone calls.
Soures confirmed that Perot had talked to them but
said that neither had been hired as of now.
said.
Analysts from both parties have said that getting Jordan and Rollins aboard would be a major political coup for the Dallas computer tycoon.
"It might happen, and it might not happen," Squires said.
Perot aides had told both Rollins and Jordan that they would be paid as much as $5 million for their services, sources in both parties said.
One prominent GOP consultant, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Monday he was told by Perot aides that the Dallas computer tycoon was prepared to spend more than $100 million on his campaign.
The consultant, who said he turned down request for a job interview, said he was told that Perot did not take it.
"Yeah, I didn't think you depend that much," the consultant said she/heDid Perot's representatives.
"They said, 'No, no, you don't understand. He'd spend
many, many of this."
Perot, who is worth at least $3 billion, has said he would spend what it takes, often pointing out that the $100 million figure banded about was just an estimate made by journalists, not himself.
Squires said he could not believe that a Perot representative would make such a statement.
"That is so alien to everything I see and believe. That sounds like Sini Doctor stuff," he said.
reroft's professional staff continues to grow while his effort to get on every state ballotpliers forward. On Monday, he qualified for Arkansas' general-election ballot, his 12th, following a weekend nominating convention.
And journalist Marilyn Berger, a former reporter for the *Washington Post* and NBC, has joined Perot's team as a consultant on the Middle East, sources said.
On the subject of a vice presidential selection, Squires said, "We're in the list process here. I don't think there is one list. Think there are lists."
Besides Kirkpatrick, only rumored potential running mates include Peter Ubererbeth, the former baseball commissioner who is now in charge of a task force dealing with the riot aftermath in Los Angeles; 1988 Democratic presidential contender Jesse Jackson; and Connecticut Gov. Lowell Wecker.
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