Making a white to clear gradient

I'm used to photoshop and understand illustrator works on different principals, but I can't get a white to clear gradient or a gradient that has white on either end, or a graident in color..I've tried making a new gradient swatch like in InDesign and have tried loading various default graidents but can't get what I wNt I want to do this: thanks in advance.

yes more simple but I'm losing the bright turq at bottom of button with only one rectangle. I need to understand the combining effects of the layering of images, how they affect one another. Am using the transparency palette to no avail.
This is what I want, made from 2 separate gradient rectangles with an additional oval shape on top. (I took out the outside of the oval with Photoshop). I am unable to make a clipping mask that leaves all areas intact:
This is how far I get, (below) and making a clipping mask either cuts out an area of the button I want, deletes one of the rectangles, which changes the gradation or "deletes" the whole image except for the bounding box(es), (Like in Post #11 above, image 5). I need to get rid of the areas with the red "X's". (I still think I'm thinking in terms of rasterizing software and can't get my head around Illustrator. I can do all I want in InDesign, but need to use Ai, so I don't understand what I don't understand!:
In this last I tried simplifying the orig. elements, and made it from 1 rectangle that had a 3-color gradient (so I can keep the intensity of colors), but when I lay the top oval on, I don't get the look I want, regardless of transparency settings, arrangement of objects or if the oval is with/without a gradient...and still can't make a clipping mask anyway:
Thinking outloud here!

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