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...White House mess, indeed. There comes a moment in every political scandal when the fog starts to clear. In the intricate matter that is Democratic fund raising, the moment is now. For much of that we can thank Harold Ickes. In response to a request from congressional investigators, Ickes has been turning over thousands of pages of documents from his three years as Clinton's deputy chief of staff, the job he left in January, thus forcing the White House to release them before they leak. While most appear to be harmless to the White House, a few priceless pages...
Finally, Santos recommends that groups designate a contact person; personalizing the request in the eyes of the foundation is always a plus...
...tale of his joint venture with Murdoch: it was last April, and Murdoch's office called to ask if the Softbank chairman would speak at a News Corp. reception in Tokyo. Son's assistant, protective of his schedule and not recognizing the Murdoch name, dutifully turned down the request. "'Wow, no!' I told her," Son recalls. "'This is one invitation we have to accept.'" Four weeks and just two meetings later, Son had convinced Murdoch that Softbank was the partner he needed in the $164 million deal to launch Japan Sky Broadcast...
...interviews is that then D.N.C. chairman Don Fowler met with Chung in his office March 9, 1995; that he arranged for Chung and his entourage to attend the radio address two days later, even though other D.N.C. finance officials who had seen Chung separately had turned down his request; that the Chinese business executives Chung brought along were photographed with the President after his talk; and that the D.N.C. logged in a $50,000 gift from Chung on March...
Policarpo also questioned Ramos-Horta's urgent request for a United Nations-sponsored national referendum for the area, saying that in the mid-1970s Ramos-Horta's party opposed the idea of such a referendum...