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...Democratic National Committee in exchange for the invitation for him and six business friends from China to watch Clinton sound off on everything from welfare reform to college loans. Exactly how the deal evolved remains unclear. What is known from documents and interviews is that then D.N.C. chairman Don Fowler met with Chung in his office March 9, 1995; that he arranged for Chung and his entourage to attend the radio address two days later, even though other D.N.C. finance officials who had seen Chung separately had turned down his request; that the Chinese business executives Chung brought along were...
...Fowler strongly denies that he personally intervened for Chung or discussed a donation in return for the invitation. Even so, Chung's Oval Office visit for the radio chat stands out even by the standards of Washington's cash-hungry politics. One of the city's enduring myths is that political contributions given on Monday have little to do with results on Wednesday. What happens between donor and recipient is often characterized as coincidental and tends to be handled with some finesse. It may defy all logic, but the myth is kept alive by the appearance of a carefully maintained...
...Beijing that would help him negotiate the release of Harry Wu, a Chinese-American human-rights activist imprisoned for two months on espionage charges. Although he never received the presidential seal, Chung got the next best thing: a letter from the chairman of the President's political party, Don Fowler, thanking Chung for "being a friend and great supporter of the D.N.C." and wishing him success on his China mission...
...working with Huang, at that point a go-go money-maker for the Democratic National Committee, to boost the party's appeal among Asian-American donors. In January, Trie attended a D.N.C. finance-board breakfast at Washington's Hay Adams hotel, where party chairman Don Fowler asked the party's top 110 fund raisers to each raise $350,000 by Election Day. Rainmakers from Texas and Massachusetts balked at Fowler's demand, calling the pace unrealistic. But not Trie...
...Trie toward such goals. Huang, the documents say, raised $3.4 million for the President's party, nearly $1 million more than previously reported. How much Trie raised still isn't known, but the documents show that from one dinner alone, he raised $100,000. He was so successful that Fowler wrote Trie to thank him, noting approvingly that he had been named a co-chairman of a special Asian-American fund-raising-event. Fowler urged Trie to ask for help "if there is anything...