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Clinton was cruising toward a clear majority of the popular vote and perhaps more than 400 electoral votes until two weeks ago, when the scandal surrounding D.N.C. fund raiser John Huang began to bite. Clinton lost ground he had held for months in part because he seemed to be forgetting the lessons he had learned about arrogance. He refused to answer questions about his party's fund-raising practices; this week the White House dribbled out new details of additional meetings between shadowy lobbyists and Administration officials, including the President. Ross Perot's sure slide toward oblivion was halted...
...real feel for what voters cared about. There was Bill Lacy, a buttoned-down Marylander and trusted Dole aide who would run strategy and message. There was a veteran G.O.P. fieldman named Tom Synhorst, who had managed Dole's winning 1988 Iowa campaign. And there was fund raiser JoAnne Coe, who started with Dole...
More questions were raised by Huang's dozens of visits to the White House this year. Secret Service logs show that Huang went there most frequently in February 1996, shortly after joining the D.N.C. "It creates a very bad impression to have a fund raiser spending that much time in the White House," says C. Boyden Gray, who served as Bush's White House counsel. Gray set up a "funnel" in the Bush White House during the 1992 campaign, requiring campaign officials to clear any conversations with Bush appointees in the government. "It was time-consuming because...
...dual purpose of drumming up more donations abroad? Those are the questions at the heart of the lawsuit filed by the nonprofit, conservative group Judicial Watch, Inc. The suit became an election issue last week, when Judicial Watch lawyers were allowed to conduct a videotaped deposition of Democratic fund raiser John Huang. In addition, thousands of pages of Commerce Department documents have been turned over to the group...
...antiques, the designer frocks and the sort of pin money only Cartier understands. As Averell Harriman's wife and widow, she became a patron of defeated Democrats, opening her house to promising politicians, Bill Clinton among them. According to the numbers, Pamela Harriman was an effective party fund raiser, although not an especially generous contributor...