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Dorothy, 34, fund raiser for Dad's presidential library foundation...
Clinton had talked about cutting short his California trip, but concluded that it would look panicky. In a speech to the AFL-CIO in San Francisco and another in Los Angeles at a $1,000-a-plate Democratic Party fund raiser, he said little about Somalia or Russia either. As late as Wednesday, though, Clinton officiated at a ceremony in the East Room of the White House to mark the signing of a bill allowing federal employees to participate in political campaigns. "This is a very happy day for me," he remarked -- as public reaction to the ghastly pictures from...
Intrigued by the seemingly cloak-and-dagger methods Cleary hinted at, The Crimson decided to probe this further, taking the matter up with Harvard's most recognizable fund raiser: President Neil L. Rudenstine...
...respected by most, and retains his power of persuasion there. One morning just as legislative director Howard Paster had got a difficult House Democrat on the line for the President, Gore walked in, took the phone and softened up the Congressman by reminding him of a fund raiser Gore had for him in 1988. Oftimes when congressional leaders call the Oval Office, Clinton uses the speakerphone and puts Gore on. In a walk-up to the first budget vote, Gore spent only five minutes to bag a Southern Senator that no one else had been able to move. The President...
...lobbyist, "Can the quirky Moynihan put together a coalition?" If he does not, the Senate leadership may try to brush him aside. A daunting task, but the Senator lost a little luster last week with the disclosure that he had scheduled, then canceled, a $5,000-a-person fund raiser for lobbyists on July 19, likely to be a crucial time in the debate...