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...President's last hope is for a change of heart by Mills. So far, however, the chairman has had scarcely a kind word for the bill. Apart from the political hazards of voting an unpopular new tax, the Arkansan is innately skeptical of economic prognosticators and-despite the almost-unanimous verdict of his witnesses-far from persuaded by their predictions of an inflationary spiral. On the contrary, Mills fears that added taxes may have the opposite effect of stifling growth. And he is unconvinced that $6 billion raised by the surtax can make a real dent in the deficit...
Rusk received some assistance in his own confrontation from South Vietnamese Foreign Minister Tran Van Do, who wrote a 1,300-word letter to Democratic Senator J. William Fulbright, warning that the Arkansan's "unjust" criticism of the U.S. war effort was grist for Hanoi's propaganda mills and inviting him to Saigon-which he has yet to visit. Fulbright, however, seemed fully occupied in Washington with the latest round in the hearings on Viet Nam before his Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The sessions followed a familiar pattern. Retired General James Gavin, who last year urged...
...backroom politics on Capitol Hill, who reached his apogee when, as Secretary of the U.S. Senate in 1945-47 and again in 1949-52, his friendship with President Truman made him a power pivot between the White House and the Senate; of pneumonia; in Washington. A wispy, whispery Arkansan, Biffle, as the man in charge of the Senate's machinery, was the one to see to grease the ways for a bill or swing a vote here and there. His political judgment was considered "blue chip" after the 1948 campaign when he disguised himself as a chicken farmer...
...Arkansan, least of all Winthrop Rockefeller, thought that this was the last of the get-Rockefeller effort. Addressing a Young Republican Club meeting in Jonesboro last week, Winthrop said: "We're entitled to better government in Arkansas. I am working for that which I think is right for Arkansas, so that we will take our position with the ranks of states with dignity, not buffoonery." In a more private moment, he built a monument to understatement: "I have a sneaking suspicion that the Governor's bipartisan policy is coming...
...native Arkansan (Fort Smith), I knew Wilbur Mills's father as an astute customer [Jan. ii]. If heritage means anything, Congressman Mills will exercise good business judgment. Will cutting taxes stimulate the economy? Any new business demands risk before profit. And isn't all of life, economy included, a matter of trial and error? Wilbur Mills will minimize error. That is, if he takes after...