Records List Reagan White House Calls

WASHINGTON — President Reagan made telephone calls to fund-raising events from the White House and Camp David and promised donors on one occasion that they would visit the White House “quite often,” documents from his presidential library in Simi Valley, Calif., show.

Reagan was assured by lawyers that the calls were legal.

The documents do not indicate that Reagan ever made a call directly to individual donors from the White House to solicit a specific amount of money, which Vice President Al Gore has acknowledged doing. President Clinton has said it is possible that he, too, may have made direct telephone solicitations.

Those statements have embroiled the current White House in questions of whether the president or vice president violated a federal law prohibiting solicitations on federal property. Senate hearings on the fund-raising resume today.