Posted on 02/25/2021 12:14:39 PM PST by PallMal
Actually, there is a straight line from Bill Clinton's rise to power back to the earliest modern DC sex scandal.In 1974, the powerful Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Wilbur Mills (D-AR) was caught with stripper Fanne Foxe (the "Tidal Basin Bombshell) when he was pulled over at 2:00am for a DUI. Mills represented Little Rock for 38 years.
Mills resigned, and Clinton buddy Jim Guy Tucker (then Arkansas Attorney General) succeeded Mills in Congress. Clinton took Tucker's seat as Attorney General. Clinton eventually became Governor, and when he became President Tucker left Congress and became Governor after Clinton.
-PJ
One trip too many to theh fish & chips shop !
Years later, a Democratic relative of mine mistakenly remembered Mills was “a Republican.”
The English don’t age well at all. Old English men start to look like old women (see Paul McCartney) and old English women start to look like Leonid Brezhnev (see Christine Keeler).
Man, was she hot when she was younger though. Her Majesty and Prince Phillip seem to have held up very well.
What is she doing with AOC?
Both names even appear in the song “I Ain’t Got You” from the Blues Brothers.
LOL...
Scary how we change with time.
That was a two step scandal.
“Despite the scandal, Mills was re-elected in November 1974 in a heavily Democratic year with nearly 60% of the vote, defeating Republican Judy Petty. On November 30, 1974, Mills, seemingly drunk, was accompanied by Fanne Foxe’s husband onstage at The Pilgrim Theatre in Boston, a burlesque house where Foxe was performing.”
Fun fact, she was pregnant with Wilbur Mills’ baby and had it killed. Prayers for her soul.
That’s not JF’nK?
Fun times.
“That’s not JF’nK?”
Originally thought it was Sarah Jessica Parker.
Quite the transformation [no trans involved, of course PCness these dazs is incredible].
“I found the 70’s to be good times rock and roll.”
Yup. The beginning of the end came when Jerry Falwell teamed up with feminists and got Playboy banned from 7-11. It’s been all downhill since.
“It’s been all downhill since.”
There’s a lot of inflection points since then.
January 6, 1975 was the transition from Reagan to some commie in Calif.
“There’s a lot of inflection points since then.”
I can agree with that. Another one was the release of “One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest”, which IMHO directly precipitated the current homeless problem.
I remember her and the Mills scandal. “The Tidal Basin Bombshell!”
After that stunt she became known as THE TIDAL BASIN BOMBSHELL!
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