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Democratic fund raiser John Huang has been out of sight in Washington, but he was practically stalking the President last week in Australia, where Clinton played golf with Greg Norman, ogled the scalloped opera house in Sydney and stomped through a rain forest near the Great Barrier Reef. No matter where Clinton went to get away, he found himself deflecting questions about Huang and his former boss, Indonesian banker James T. Riady. "Mark Twain said every dog should have a few fleas," the President quipped; "keeps them from worrying so much about being...
Clinton and Bowles met four years ago, when Bowles volunteered himself to the campaign the day Clinton lost the Connecticut primary. Bowles soon became a heavyweight fund raiser in North Carolina, where he was a successful investment banker. He had been to Washington only a couple of times in his life before he moved up in 1993 to take over the dispirited, endangered Small Business Administration. His wife, textile magnate Crandall Close Bowles, stayed behind in Charlotte with their three children, which left Bowles with little better to do than spend 15 hours a day at the office. He invited...
Last week she rebuffed a call by Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona for a fifth independent counsel to investigate allegedly illegal contributions to the Democratic Party by wealthy foreign nationals. But other requests are pending, and last week offered new evidence of possible transgressions by former party fund-raiser John Huang. The Los Angeles Times reported that several Asian business executives visited or called Huang when he was a Commerce Department official, in at least one case seeking a specific favor from the White House, and sometimes within days wrote big checks to the Democratic National Committee. Also...
Dole did not campaign effectively on the character issue until the last weeks before the election, when he got an assist from the media: press reports revealed that a Clinton fund raiser named John Huang had collected more than $800,000 in questionable contributions from foreign donors. Clinton had designed his fund-raising juggernaut to ensure a big win, but now public disgust with his money machine threatened to whittle down the size of his victory margin. Clinton desperately wanted to get more than 50% of the vote. As some undecided voters broke for Ross Perot, Clinton's own polls...
...North Carolina, but Dick Armey was still there fighting for the doomed campaign of G.O.P. freshman David Funderburk. "There's no Republican I know who dares tell the truth about the Clinton Administration," he growled to several dozen of the Republican faithful who had gathered for a Funderburk fund raiser at a Durham-area country club. "If we tell the truth, we're considered meanspirited...