Stockdale joins Perot ticket in a campaign detour
Washington Post reports James Bond Stockdale, a Medal of Honor recipient, Hoever Institution fellow, and former admiral, will run as Ross Perot's vice presidential pick. Stockdale cites Epictetus and Stoic resilience from Hanoi captivity as his guiding influence while embracing pragmatic, nonpartisan political change.
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Born December 23 1923 in Galesburg Illinois he graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1946 and served as a Navy fighter pilot rising to Vice Admiral. He was shot down during his second Vietnam tour and spent eight years as a prisoner of war four in solitary confinement. He later led the Naval War College and the Citadel and was a Hoover Institution fellow. He wrote A Vietnam Experience Ten Years of Reflection and In Love and War with his wife Sybil Bailey. He married in 1947 and had four children and four grandchildren.
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