He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam.

Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the Larry King Show to becoming a candidate for president, to get on all 50 ballots.

And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book, nobody in the White House from that point on had any doubt that we were going to bomb the mainland of Asia.

So the first thing that went on was to decide... trying to find a time when we could get reprisal raids out.

It's as if an atomic bomb was dropped,

Sybil's my wife, and on the first day of October, that's the first time I knew Ross was going to run.