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	Wilbur Daigh Mills (1909-1992)
		Wilbur Mills was a powerful Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from the State of Arkansas.
		Mills was also acknowledged as the primary tax expert in the Congress and a voice for the Tax Reform Act of 1969.
		Mills is buried at Kensett Cemetery in Kensett, Arkansas.
	www.hench.net /2003/Mills.htm (570 words)

	Wilbur Mills Information
		Wilbur Daigh Mills was born on 24 May, 1909 in Kensett, (White County, Kensett was the first public school in Arkansas to integrate, under Mr.
		Mills' father as first superintendent and then as chair of the school board and always the banker for the school district.) Mills attended public schools in Kensett, graduated from Searcy High School as validictorian and later graduated from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansasas salutarian and high honors.
		Mills is buried at Kensett Cemetery in Kensett, Arkansas.
	www.bookrags.com /Wilbur_Mills (524 words)

	Wilbur Daigh Mills (1909â“1992) - Encyclopedia of Arkansas
		Wilbur Mills was born May 24, 1909, in Kensett (White County) to Ardra Pickens Mills, a native of Mississippi, and Abbie Daigh Mills, a native of Nebraska.
		Mills was in a campaign for reelection at the time, returned to Arkansas full time, and won his bid by fifty-nine percent a little less than a month later.
		Mills was inducted into the Arkansas Agriculture Hall of Fame in Little Rock (Pulaski County) and the Arkansas River Hall of Fame in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
	www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net /encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=1715&type=Gender&item=Male (810 words)

	Wilbur Daigh Mills (1909â“1992) - Encyclopedia of Arkansas
		Wilbur Mills was born May 24, 1909, in Kensett (White County) to Ardra Pickens Mills, a native of Mississippi, and Abbie Daigh Mills, a native of Nebraska.
		Mills was in a campaign for reelection at the time, returned to Arkansas full time, and won his bid by fifty-nine percent a little less than a month later.
		Mills was inducted into the Arkansas Agriculture Hall of Fame in Little Rock (Pulaski County) and the Arkansas River Hall of Fame in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
	encyclopediaofarkansas.net /encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=1715 (800 words)

	Wilbur Mills - Wikinfo
		Mills served in the House of Representatives from 1939 to 1977 and served as the chair of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, a post he held longer than any other in American history.
		Mills was forced to resign his seat on the Ways and Means Committee and did not seek reelection in 1976.
		Mills is buried at Kensett Cemetery in Kensett, Arkansas.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Wilbur_Mills&printable=yes (1359 words)

	Wilbur Mills at AllExperts
		Mills' father as first superintendent and then as chair of the school board and always the banker for the school district.) Mills attended public schools in Kensett, graduated from Searcy High School as validictorian and later graduated from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansasas salutarian and high honors.
		Mills served in the House of Representatives from 1939 to 1977 and served as the chair of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, a post he held longer than any other in American history.
		Mills is buried at Kensett Cemetery in Kensett, Arkansas.
	en.allexperts.com /e/w/wi/wilbur_mills.htm (626 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Mills Admits Being Present During Tidal Basin Scuffle
		Mills, 65, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said he had left his wife, Polly, home at her request Sunday night as she had a broken foot.
		Mills said when Goss "related the report of the incident to me as it was quoted to him by members of the press, because of the manner in which it was phrased I told him that it was an inaccurate report.
		Mills has gained a reputation as one of the most powerful men in Congress through the manner in which he has conducted himself as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee that drafts all tax and tariff bills.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/local/longterm/tours/scandal/tidalbas.htm (2422 words)

	Larry Krebs; his film felled Wilbur Mills - The Boston Globe
		WASHINGTON -- Larry Krebs, the journalist who captured on film a drunken incident involving a powerful congressman and a stripper at the Tidal Basin, has died at 81.
		He got his biggest scoop in 1974 when authorities stopped a car near the Tidal Basin driven by Republican Wilbur Mills of Arkansas.
		Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, later blamed a drinking problem for the incident.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/02/13/larry_krebs_his_film_felled_wilbur_mills (168 words)

	A Tribute to Wilbur Daigh Mills
		Mills gained international prominence as Chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, a position he held longer than anyone in American history.
		Mills’ legislative career was his authoring and guidance of the Medicare program, providing health care for older Americans.
		Mills’ advice and counsel on economic matters was sought and utilized by economists, by the business leaders of the world and by the seven Presidents with whom he served.
	www.rootsweb.com /~arwhite/WilburDaighMills.htm (436 words)

	CongressionalBadBoys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Honorable Wilbur Mills, Democrat from Arkansas, the ancient, powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, got a little carried away one night.
		Mills was smashed, drunk as a skunk, and was bleeding from his nose and had scratches on his face.
		Mills once had designs on being President, but after Fanne, he returned to Congress, a pathetic figure, and ended his 38-year career in 1976.
	www.congressionalbadboys.com /Mills.htm (242 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Wilbur D. Mills: He has the means but lost the way
		WILBUR D. MILLS (D-Ark.) is as American "as apple pie and a glass of milk," or at least that's how he was introduced to the people of Manchester during his first and only appearance in the New Hampshire primary campaign, where he was running as a write-in candidate.
		Wilbur Mills is not the typical liberal candidate.
		Over 500 Mills supporters flocked to hear their candidate at the get-together, partake of the open bar and enjoy the shrimp and other delicacies--without doubt the best cuisine served up by any candidate in the primary campaign.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=131200 (536 words)

	Great Society Speech, 1964
		Mills was also sensitive to the fierce opposition of the American Medical Association and the private sector to any federal involvement in private medicine.
		Mills talks about his strategy of combining the Medicare benefits with other, less controversial provisions in a "three-pronged approach" to passing the legislation.
		She was arrested and taken to the hospital with two fl eyes that she had received in a scuffle with Mills when he tried to stop her from leaving the car.
	www.vcdh.virginia.edu /HIUS316/mbase/layout/unit05/unit05.document.html (1239 words)

	Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945-1975 \| Book Reviews \| EH.Net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		When Mills left Washington thirty years later, the policymaking process had changed dramatically, in large part because of the transformations that he and his generation wrought, including significantly increasing the power of committees and committee chairman, and insulating committees and Congressional politicking from public and even executive scrutiny.
		Attuned to the value of specialization, Wilbur Mills, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee from 1958 to 1974, carved out a power-niche for himself as Congress' resident tax expert.
		While anti-statists guarded the expenditure side of the national budget, Mills and the tax policymaking community used the revenue side of the budget to undertake a remarkable expansion of the American state.
	eh.net /bookreviews/library/0254 (1220 words)

	Arkansas Public Lands: Wilbur D. Mills Lock And Dam-Ark.Riv.Nav.Sys
		Wilber D. Mills Dam is located on the main stem of the Arkansas River.
		Overnight camping is available in Merrisach Lake Park near Lock No. 2, Wilbur D. Mills Park downstream from the dam, and Pendleton Bend Park upstream from the dam.
		Wilbur D. Mills Dam is about 13 mi N of Dumas.
	www.biggamehunt.net /sections/Arkansas/public_lands/Wilbur_D_Mills_Lock_And_DamArkRivNavSys.html (207 words)

	Wilbur Mills for President 1972 Campaign Brochures
		Wilbur Mills has worked untiringly to protect American jobs from the threat of foreign competition.
		Other Mills legislation, such as the Public Welfare Amendments of 1962, the Material and Child Health and Mental Retardation Planning Amendments of 1963, Social Security Amendments of 1966 to establish Medicare and Medicaid, and others, have helped millions of Americans live lives of dignity and self-sufficiency when without them there would only be despair.
		Where taxes are concerned, Wilbur Mills has always fought on the side of the individual American taxpayer.
	www.4president.org /brochures/wilburmills1972brochure.htm (277 words)

	Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945-1975 \| Book Reviews \| EH.Net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		When Mills left Washington thirty years later, the policymaking process had changed dramatically, in large part because of the transformations that he and his generation wrought, including significantly increasing the power of committees and committee chairman, and insulating committees and Congressional politicking from public and even executive scrutiny.
		Attuned to the value of specialization, Wilbur Mills, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee from 1958 to 1974, carved out a power-niche for himself as Congress' resident tax expert.
		While anti-statists guarded the expenditure side of the national budget, Mills and the tax policymaking community used the revenue side of the budget to undertake a remarkable expansion of the American state.
	www.eh.net /bookreviews/library/0254.shtml (1220 words)

	Wilbur Mills
		Patron of the "Silver Slipper" strip club, to the great astonishment of his Congressional colleagues, who had assumed he went straight home daily to "study the Internal Revenue Code." On 7th October 1974 an automobile was stopped at the Tidal Basin area of Washington, DC.
		Inside were four persons including Mills and a stripper, Fanne Foxe, the "Argentine Firecracker." Mills and Foxe had obviously had some altercation, both were drunk, and Foxe jumped into a nearby lake where police fished her out.
		Mills admitted an alcohol problem and sought treatment, but a second incident at the Slipper ended his career.
	www.nndb.com /people/916/000119559 (138 words)

	Michael Owens, Ph.D.
		The first Wilbur D. Mills Endowed Chair in Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Prevention was initiated in 1984 by a grant from the Office of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention, a division of the Arkansas Department of Human Services.
		By his own admission, Mills lost the chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee in 1974 as a result of his alcoholism and drug abuse.
		Second: U.S. Rep. Wilbur D. Mills (1909-1992) was chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1958 to 1974.
	www.uams.edu /today/053101/owens.htm (1230 words)

	Fanne Foxe, who brought down Wilbur Mills, the most powerful man in the US Congress
		Wilbur Mills, as Chairman of there House Ways and Means Committee, controlled all financial spending by the US Government.
		Not a dime in the government's money could be spent without approval by Mills, until it became known that he was involved with a stripper.
		The alcoholic Mills was eventually forced to check into a rehab center.
	www.samsloan.com /fannefox.htm (172 words)

	Wilbur Mills on Taxes and Spending \| TIME
		Mills, who rarely gives on-the-record interviews, agreed to sit down for an examination of his current views on issues with TIME Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil.
		To Mills, the ideal tax law is simple and brief—but the difficulty of writing equitable tax measures under political pressure makes achieving that ideal impossible.
		Mills continued: "When I talk about tax reform, I am trying to establish greater equity in the law, greater simplification of the law, greater neutrality in its effect upon business decisions.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,838970,00.html (678 words)

	Michelle Close Mills (author) on AuthorsDen
		"Wilbur's Vanishing Act" was published in the latest volume of the short story anthology "The Rocking Chair Reader-Family Gatherings" by Adams Media...available from all major booksellers including Barnes & Noble, and Amazon.
		Three was a crowd when Wilbur was around!...
		Michelle Close Mills in To Have and To Hold by Michelle Close Mills
	www.authorsden.com /michelleclosemills (2066 words)

	Wonkette: stripper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The 1970s Argentine Firecracker scandal: House power-broker Wilbur Mills is caught “cavorting in the Tidal Basin with Fanne Foxe, the Argentine Firecracker.” He doesn’t resign.
		He issued an incredibly vague written statement on the bizarre night and reportedly joined AA for a while, because he was obviously a drunk.
		Only later, after he drunkenly appeared with Foxe on a strip club stage in Boston, did Mills lose the chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee.
	www.wonkette.com /politics/stripper/index.xml (379 words)

	Current.org \| Wilbur Mills says no to LBJ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Congress doesn't work that way, said Wilbur Mills, the powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee in the late 1960s.
		The President asked his old friend Wilbur Mills to come down to the White House and talk it over.
		Wilbur Mills of Arkansas was the powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee where all tax legislation must originate.
	www.current.org /history/history0610johnson-mills.shtml (1114 words)

	Stripper: From the Argentine Firecracker To Maf54 - Wonkette
		Nostalgia for Wilbur Mills would be nostalgia for a Washington that wasn't anything like as rich and slick as it has become: a Washington that was just another crappy medium-size southern city, with corrupt cops and sleazy bars and a bullshit premise of colonial gentility, and racist as all hell, of course.
		BY DUH AT Now, Mills would go into hiding and have surrogates claim that he was abused as a 15-year-old by Evita Peron, first lady of Argentina and wife of strongman dictator Juan Peron.
		To this day, the state's busiest freeway (I-630, which runs from downtown Little Rock to its western suburbs) is called the "Wilbur Mills Freeway" according to the signs at its entrance -- although nobody actually refers to it thusly.
	www.wonkette.com /politics/stripper/from-the-argentine-firecracker-to-maf54-205063.php (1255 words)

	I Am The Rooftop: Let's Hear it for Wilbur Mills! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Twenty-four years before another Arkansan got in trouble with a young, attractive woman, Wilbur was chugging whiskey on the House floor and cavorting with strippers and nobody could really do anything about it.
		In 1974, his career was basically ended when Mills and his stripper friend were stopped by police.
		Their car was parked, they were both drunk, and she jumped into the Tidal Basin to get away from the fuzz.
	www.nuvo.net /hammer/blog/2004/07/lets-hear-it-for-wilbur-mills.html (312 words)

	Reporter who broke story on Wilbur Mills dies
		Mills and a striptease artist Fanne Foxe were inside the vehicle, and Foxe jumped into the Tidal Basin.
		Mills, who was from White County, died in Searcy in 1992.
		After Foxe's plunge, Mills released a statement in which he praised the alertness of the U.S. Park Service and said, "It cannot go unnoticed that the TV cameraman who happened to be on the scene at the precise moment to record this unfortunate occasion deserves the highest award for his swiftness and perceptiveness."
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1076870/posts (394 words)

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