Democrats immediately seized on the disclosure Thursday, suggesting the video shows a solicitation within the White House.
Federal law prohibits fund-raising solicitations on government property.
The video is the latest piece of evidence to be unearthed at Reagan's library in California suggesting that long before President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore made fund-raising calls from the mansion, Republicans may also have used the building to generate money. AP obtained a copy of a written transcript of the tape from Democratic sources. I'll campaign hard for the nominee of our party. Democrats, weary from months of attacks about whether Clinton or Gore may have solicited donors from the White House, seized on the revelation. Jan Baran, a Republican campaign finance attorney, acknowledged on ABC that Reagan's appeal may have violated the law.