[AppyPappy]

T'wit

Whassup? I thought about you this weekend when we were in DC. I was telling the kids the story you told me in your car on the way back from MFJ. Ya know. The Wilbur Mills story in the Basin. They thought I made it up.

Was her name Fannie Fox?

[T'wit]

Yes. She spelled it Fanny Foxe and was called the "Agentine firecracker." Your kids can undoubtedly find the story on the Internet if they don't believe it. Police found Fanny and Wilbur Mills splashing around in the tidal basin. Wilbur, head of the House Ways and Means Committee -- i.e., head of the money committee for the entire government -- was about the second most powerful politician in the world. (Another fine product of Arkansas, btw.) You learn something about government when you find a guy with his responsibilities drunk out of his gourd playing very strange water games with a coochy-coo stripper.

[8mmMauser]

I remember the Wilbur Mills/Fanny Foxe swim very well, was in DC at the time. A bit earlier I was in France, hitched back to DC on a congressional airplane and it happened to be the Wilbur Mills junket plane. Wow, what a deal! It was filled with personal stuff and we didn't even have to worry about a customs check at Andrews, were just rushed through to awaiting cars. I could have brought in an elephant. (or donkey)

He was Mr. Junket.