President Clinton spent most of a news conference Friday answering questions about the Democratic fund-raising controversy, but he ended up conceding that he could not rule out having made fund-raising calls from the White House.

"I simply can't say, 'I've never done it,' " he said. "I'm not sure, frankly." The president said he found raising money over the phone distasteful but could not rule out calling a supporter from the White House and in the course of the conversation saying, "Well, we need...