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Article: Congressman Charlie Wilson, Not Holding His Fire; The East Texas Democrat's Way With Women, and War
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 20, 1990
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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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