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Learn about the life and career of Charlie Wilson, a 12-term Democratic Representative from Texas who led Congress into supporting the Afghan Mujahideen during the Soviet–Afghan War. Find out his early political achievements, naval service, and controversies.
Feb 11, 2010 · Charlie Wilson, a 12-term Texas congressman who was best known for his playboy ways until he masterminded a covert effort to funnel billions of dollars in arms to Afghan rebels fighting the...
Feb 10, 2010 · Charlie Wilson, the larger-than-life Texas congressman whose efforts to fund Afghanistan's resistance to the Soviet Union in the 1980s were made into a movie, died Wednesday of heart failure....
Feb 11, 2010 · Charlie Wilson, the fun-loving Texas congressman whose 1980s campaign to rid Afghanistan of Soviet influence was memorably captured in a Hollywood film that bore his name, died Wednesday. He...
Feb 12, 2010 · Charlie Wilson, the brash, controversial Texas Democrat who persuaded Congress to arm them, died this week at the age of 76.
Charlie Wilson, who represented the second district of Texas in Congress from 1973 to his resignation in 1996, was a unique politician—a state legislator, a state senator, and one of the...
Feb 11, 2010 · (CNN) -- Former Democratic Rep. Charles Wilson of Texas, whose support for anti-Soviet forces in Afghanistan inspired the 2007 movie "Charlie Wilson's War," died Wednesday at age 76.
Charles Nesbitt Wilson was an American politician and naval officer who was a 12-term Democratic Representative from Texas's 2nd congressional district.
Feb 10, 2010 · Charlie Wilson, the former congressman from Texas whose funding of Afghanistan's resistance to the Soviet Union was chronicled in Charlie Wilson's War, died Wednesday. He was 76.
Feb 10, 2010 · Charlie Wilson, the congressman from East Texas who became immortalized by Hollywood for his efforts in leading U.S. support to Afghanistan during the Afghan-Soviet war, died today at the age of 76.
