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Article: IN '96 PROBE, AIDE DENIED EXISTENCE OF WHITE HOUSE DATABASE.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- February 7, 1997
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Byline: JOHN SOLOMON Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- Just days before a controversial White House database was disclosed last year, the presidential aide who oversaw the project told congressional investigators in a sworn deposition, ``There was no database at the White House at all.''
White House aide Marsha Scott gave the answer June 19, 1996, during the investigation into the White House travel office firings. She was questioned about an early 1993 memo written by presidential friend Harry Thomason.
Thomason's memo advised against destroying mail from the presidential correspondence office that Scott oversaw to avoid losing ``a name also lost ...