Ethics #233 By Hank Silverberg In 1974, a stripper named Fanny Foxe had to be rescued from the tidal basin near the U.S. Capitol. She had jumped in to avoid being caught with powerful Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills of Arkansas. Police had pulled him over close by for driving without headlights. The ensuing scandal cost Mills his chairmanship, and he quietly retired from Congress at the end of his term. (U.S. Capitol with tidal basin) Senator Gary Hart was a frontrunner for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1987 w...