[lonestar]

Yeah, you’re right this couldn’t have happened to people from any other State, but Texas.

He was my congressman and I don't intend to see the movie. I can't stand the jerk. I've seen all I ever want to see of Sorry Charlie!

Did they show that he took Miss World with him on one of his trips?

[flattorney]

Just for you because we know deep down inside you really love Charlie like a son :-) TAB

From Dr. Jack Wheeler’s article about Charlie Wilson and Ronald Reagan's War

This picture was taken during my wedding on May 25, 1986. The ceremony took place at the villa of a friend of mine in St. Tropez, France. My bride was a gorgeous California redhead named Rebel Holiday (yes, her born name). The dapper gentleman you see between us was serving as my best man. The reason he doesn't look like Tom Hanks is because he's the real Charlie Wilson. When Rebel tossed her garter after the ceremony, it was Charlie who caught it.

He promptly and gallantly put it on the shapely leg of his then-fiancée, Annelise Ilschenko - who was more beautiful and classier than Julia Roberts, having been Miss USA (in 1975 at age 17). Besides, Charlie hadn't seen Joanne Herring (played by Ms. Roberts) in years.

So it was a strange experience for me to see the movie Charley Wilson's War, a movie portraying events I participated in, to see how it was both true and not true, magnificent and ludicrous at the same time.

Source: “To The Point” by Dr. Jack Wheeler

[Recon Dad]

All that was in the book. On his first trip to the area he went sans female companion. After that he never went without an “assistant”.

Charlie must have been one piece of work. At least he was colorful. Having lived in Louisiana I know colorful politic ans.