The Center for Public Integrity reported in January 2000 that, “since Gore became part of the Democratic ticket in the summer of 1992, Occidental has given more than $470,000 in soft money to various Democratic committees and causes.”66 According to the report, two days after the Occidental chairman slept in the Lincoln Bedroom, he donated $100,000 to the Democratic National Committee. The chairman was also a guest at a 1994 White House party for Boris Yeltsin. Occidental had an interest in Russian oil. Earlier that year, the chairman had traveled with President Bill Clinton’s commerce
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