Article: Congressman Charlie Wilson, Not Holding His Fire; The East Texas Democrat's Way With Women, and War

So many Charlie Wilson stories. So little time.

Here is Wilson, the House of Representatives' premier commie fighter and resident bon vivant, standing outside a posh Houston hotel late this spring after attending a $5,000-a-head Democratic Party fund-raiser with Speaker Thomas S. Foley (D-Wash.) and a half dozen of his Texas Democratic colleagues.

Wilson, as tall, thin and ramrod-straight as the loblolly pines that blanket his East Texas district ("the only man I've ever met who can strut sitting down," a former House colleague once said of him), reaches past his ever-present suspenders into his Lewis & Thomas Saltz suit jacket and extricates a handful of snapshots. The photos are of a ...

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