Article: MEMOS IDENTIFY WHITE HOUSE DATABASE AS CAMPAIGN TOOL.(News)

Byline: John Solomon Associated Press

The presidential aide who oversaw the creation of a taxpayer-financed database identified the project as a key to President Clinton's plan to reward donors with White House access and groom them for his re-election effort, memos show.

The revelations were contained in passages of documents that had been censored and kept from congressional investigators for more than six months. They were finally turned over uncensored late Monday.

For weeks, the White House has maintained that the database was used only for official purposes and not to aid the campaign, which would be potentially illegal.

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