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On the recordOctober 8, 1997
Only a lot more expensive. And the fascinating thing is, well, all 44 coffees also happened to be hit under the same computer system for DNC fund-raisers. Now, let me see, the White House spin machine has been saying these were not fund-raisers, ``We were not using public property for fund-raisers.'' But when they searched DNC fund-raisers, the same 44 turned up. And we know that. Now, what is the difference between 44 and 150? There are 106 others out there that we do not know anything about. I find it absolutely fascinating and tremendously humorous. But there is one more point in all of this that I want to bring out. When this came out, I happened to be in Arizona en route back to Washington when I first heard this story of the tapes released: ``White House releases tapes of White House coffees,'' not fund-raisers, even though the White House itself in their own computer called them DNC fund-raisers. But when the tapes came out, the national news reporter I heard on this radio story said, ``But they do not show any breaking of the law; they actually back up the President's story.'' I kind of listened to that for a minute. Then I got here, and I happened to see the tapes the other night. There are fascinating things in the tapes; for example, the missing gap of time. Rosemary Woods surfaces again, and there is, you know, a human gap. Now it just so happens that the gap appears on the one tape where we see none other than John Huang.…
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John Shadegg
Arizona

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Discussing the implications of released tapes related to DNC fund-raisers during a floor speech.

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