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Article: White House database a key to donors, memos say For weeks, Clinton aides have said computer list wasn't a campaign aid
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- March 11, 1997
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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.
"This is the president's idea and it is a good one," says one memo
by White House aide Marsha ...