It's interesting to speculate what would have happened had Perot kept out of the race. Would we just have put Clinton and the damage he did off 4 years? Knowing what we do now, Clinton is nothing if not one of the most ambitious individuals to hit American politics in modern times.
That's a good point. The thought of Clinton possibly winning in 1996 for the first time is scary: he very well might have won re-election in 2000 and we would've had him in charge on 9/11. Not quite as scary as Al Gore being in the White House on 9/11 but still not a pleasant thought.