In the midst of Washington's worried deliberations over Viet Nam and Korea last week, Secretary of State Dean Rusk took time out to join Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler on a quiet but urgent mission to Little Rock, Ark. There, in The Coachman's Inn, the two Cabinet members spent a precious two hours and ten minutes with Representative Wilbur Mills in yet another effort to enlist his support for the President's tax bill. Mills, characteristically, was unimpressed.
The Rusk-Fowler trip pointed up the immense importance the White House attaches to both the tax increase and Mills's position as chairman of the powerful House...
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