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Article: The Undoing of White House Damage Control; As More Documents Emerge, Clinton's Involvement in Fund-Raising Becomes Clear
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 6, 1997
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When the controversy over Democratic fund-raising activities
erupted six months ago, White House officials adopted a simple
damage control strategy: They moved swiftly to put as much distance
as possible between President Clinton and the unfolding debacle at
the Democratic National Committee, minimized the role Clinton and
other top officials played in party fund-raising and denied any link
between campaign contributions and White House perks.
After three months of disclosures, capped by a new set of
White House documents released last week, that strategy is in
tatters.
No one solicited political cash from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,
Clinton's aides repeated so often it came to sound ...