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...That was the kind of rhetoric Americans will need to hear more of if Clinton is to muster opinion in favor of a sustained conflict. But Clinton wasn't addressing the American people when he said it. He was talking to big donors at a Democratic National Committee fund raiser...
...sweating one, FRED THOMPSON folded one and now a rainmaker for LAMAR ALEXANDER, a former and possibly future presidential candidate, is involved in another. In September, federal agents seized documents from the offices of Beaulieu of America, a Dalton, Ga., carpet company run by CARL BOUCKAERT, a key money raiser for the former Governor of Tennessee. Beaulieu, the third largest carpet manufacturer in the U.S., was a target of a Justice Department price-fixing probe, but was not charged. Investigators are now looking into whether or not the company reimbursed employees for contributions made to the plain-talking, plaid-shirted...
When it comes to the more serious question of whether Clinton knew of a foreign-money pipeline, the tapes are tantalizing...but. At a 1996 event he thanks "those who have come from other countries to be with us tonight." At another he praises John Huang, the Democratic fund raiser who solicited a good part of the contributions that have since been returned by the party as questionable or worse. In the Oval Office we also see Clinton courting James Riady, whose family controls the Lippo Group, the Indonesian conglomerate with major projects in China, and questionable D.N.C. contributions...
Thursday?s nuggets: Clinton pregnant warning to donors at a May 1996 White House dinner, "This (election) could get away from us in a hurry." And his blatant admission at a Michigan fund-raiser: That a Democratic Party TV ad campaign financed by "soft-money" donations was "central to the position I now enjoy in the polls...
WASHINGTON: Lobbyist Peter Knight knows that sometimes the best way to get a politician's attention is by waving a checkbook. As Al Gore's money man, in 1996 he set the record for a one-night fund-raiser: $12.5 million...