September 10, 2009
Sept. 10, 1996:
Ross Perot, the presidential candidate of the Reform Party, picks economist and writer Pat Choate as his running mate. Choate has been advising Perot on economic issues for years, and the two co-authored a book in 1993 opposing the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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