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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

Today is July 10th, 2019.

Ross Perot died yesterday morning in Dallas after a five-month battle with leukemia.

He was 89.

Whether you live in Dallas or Denmark, you probably know of Mr. Perrault through his two campaigns

for president and his pioneering work in computer services that made him a billionaire.

But if that's all you know of him, you miss the most significant part of him.

I met Mr. Perrault and his wife Margo at various functions in Dallas over the years,

and know him primarily through my friendship with his

son, Ross Perot Jr. But everywhere I travel in Dallas, I meet his legacy. The Morton H. Meyerson

Symphony Center was built, in part, through a $10 million donation from Mr. Perrault, who insisted

that the center be named not for himself, but his longtime business partner.

Mr. Perrault and his wife made contributions to medical care in our city, exceeding $100 million.

His work on improving schools and caring for our nation's POWs and veterans was groundbreaking.

The rescue he organized for company employees imprisoned in Iran

became the basis for Ken Follett's 1983 nonfiction book

on Wings of Eagles and a TV miniseries.

If you read the Dallas Morning News profile of Mr. Perrault,

you'll get a sense of the man and his enduring significance to our city.

If you read the Washington Post profile, you'll see a much more negative, politicized agenda at work.

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