Word: donor
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...exporter of Chinese goods to the U.S., Lau had a big financial stake in the talks. What gained him his unusual access to Hayes? His political connections may have helped. His American business partner, Tom Nastos of New York, is a major donor to the Democratic Party: he, his wife and one of his firms have given $90,000 since late 1995. The White House invited Lau to two pre-election fund raisers with Clinton in Washington (Nastos was invited to one). Lau's D.C. lobbyist was once a U.S. trade negotiator who gained entree to Hayes' confidential briefings, once...
Former presidential aide Harold Ickes may explain donor sleepovers in Lincoln bedroom...
When senators of both parties questioned the special access granted big Democratic Party donors by the National Security Council, NSC boss TONY LAKE pooh-poohed the charges. But last week the NSC admitted that the month beore last year's presidential election, Lake did meet with MAURICE TEMPLESMAN, the deep-pocketed Democratic donor who was the companion of JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS...
...Report "donor servicing." In a new twist last year, the Clinton-Gore campaign invited donors to the White House, onto Air Force One and into other sacred public spaces for coffee. It wasn't what their lawyers called "fund raising"; they called it "donor servicing." Hence we need instant disclosure of all meetings between donors and public officials. Reports must be sent to the FEC in a timely manner. Critics will say this measure will impede the business of government in America. My rejoinder: not legitimate business...
Last week the White House struck again. A story Thompson was eyeing as a centerpiece involved Roger Tamraz, a major Democratic donor who wants to build an oil pipeline from the Caspian Sea to Turkey. Part of the story broke in March in the Wall Street Journal: the CIA was allegedly enlisted by Democratic chairman Don Fowler to facilitate a National Security Council meeting for Tamraz, who was seeking the U.S.'s blessing for his project. Republicans hoped that juicy details, still buried in White House files, would show "how the system went awry," in the words...