Federal law prohibits soliciting donors in government offices.
The quote of the president on the tape really nails it. More than 100 hours of long-sought tapes of dinners at swanky hotels, White House breakfasts and Saturday radio addresses in the Oval Office were turned over by the White House to Republican investigators Tuesday and Wednesday. In several shown to reporters in a makeshift screening room at the Old Executive Office Building, Clinton appears alongside Charlie Trie, John Huang, James Riady, Johnny Chung and other Democratic fund-raisers whose activities in the 1996 election thrust their party into controversy. Trie has left the country, Huang has cited his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in refusing to be interviewed by investigators and Chung won't cooperate in the probe without a grant of immunity. But the tapes showed that when Clinton was drumming up financial support for his campaign, the three were welcome in the president's fund-raising circle and acknowledged for their loyalty.