Thursday, Feb. 1, 2001

LIPPOBANK
MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION
(Formerly BANK OF TRADE)

January 7, 1993

Mr. Ronald H. Brown
Chairman
Democratic National Committee
430 South Capitol Street, S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20203

Daer Ron,

Congratulations for great performance during yesterday Senate hearing. I was watching it in the Senate Russell Building and came away with the strong feeling that you will do an outstanding job as Secretary of the Department of Commerce in the coming years.

I was trying to reach you. But there were too many people there and I was not successful to do it.

What I really want to do is to identify a convenient time in the coming week to arrange a meeting between you and Dr. Mochtar Riady, our Group Chairman. Dr. Riady will be coming to the States. I firmly believe such a meeting will be quite beneficial and valuable given Dr. Riady's many years experience in the business arena. In fact, he is so good that he has been named as advisor to two of largest Japanese Banks (Tokai Bank and Daiwa Bank). Dealing with Japan and other Asian matters will be all of our important agenda.

Please if possible give me (f you are busy, please ask Bill Morton or your other assistant) a call at my office at (213) 625-1888 x668 or at my home at (818) 244-5089 so that I can quickly finalize this matter.

Thanking you in advance for taking a little moment on this matter. I know you extremely busy. But I think this matter is also important as well.

Again, congratulations and looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Sincerely yours,

John Huang
Vice Chairman

JH/dt

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