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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Did Democratic fund-raisers sell jobs and federal appointments for cash? A memo written in April, 1994 by an unidentified fund-raiser, and kept in the files of former senior White House advisor Harold Ickes, flatly stated that in order to reach a fundraising goal of $40 million, the Democratic party needed White House support, among other things, for "Better coordination on appointments to boards and commissions.? Ickes gave the memo to Congress. Trying for positive spin as the news got progressively worse, the Democratic National Committee said Friday that it is returning another $1.5 million in improper...
...documents do illustrate a few cases in which Lake and his staff prevailed in asserting national security over electoral victory. When Trie, a D.N.C. fund raiser and an old Clinton friend from Arkansas, asked for a presidential photo with Chinese officials he was hosting in April 1993, Lake argued against the meeting because the officials were not high ranking. He got his way. But as the Chung case shows, the President's donors had a greater interest in diplomacy than was previously known. In March 1996, Trie sent a letter to Clinton questioning whether his deployment of two aircraft carrier...
MICHAEL WEISSKOPF joined our Washington staff as a correspondent only four weeks ago, but he's already reported two exclusive stories for TIME: a profile of chief Democratic fund raiser Alan Solomont; a report on the secret White House database used to track potential donors; and this week's lead story about the growing scandal over foreign donations to the Democratic Party. It's all in a month's work for Weisskopf, who in 19 years at the Washington Post garnered a fistful of journalism honors, including Pulitzer nominations and a George Polk Award. He was well prepared to follow...
...further with Starr's investigation of the Clintons. Last week Theodore Stein, the Los Angeles official who hired Hubbell for the airport deal, told a Little Rock grand jury that he got Hubbell's name from Mary Leslie, who had served in 1992 as Clinton's chief California fund raiser...
...stopped by a benign brain tumor. Taylor's condition was diagnosed after a checkup last week, but she has postponed surgery until the day after the celebrations for her 65th birthday on Feb. 16. It's not just that she loves a good party. The event is a fund raiser for her longtime cause, AIDS research. Before the diagnosis, Barbara Walters bagged an interview for 20/20 and learned that Liz also plans to be present at the birth of Michael Jackson's child. "One of the reasons Michael and I are close is because neither of us had a childhood...