Charlie Wilson's War Page #3

point man on black approps

for the Defense Subcommittee?

Yeah.

Have him come to my office

as soon as possible.

- How am I voting on this?

- Yes.

- You sure?

- Yes.

The Boy Scouts?

Jim Van Wagenen. Get him and

show him that wire story.

- Yes, sir.

- You are the man I wanted to talk to.

The Congressman will

be here in a moment.

He's just coming up from a vote.

I'm sure it's an important one.

No. Not really.

So, Marla, can you fit this

into his schedule next week?

Charlie Wilson's office. Good morning.

The third...

It is? How are you?

- Suzanne, can you help me with this?

- Okay.

- I'll be right back.

- I'll have him do it.

Okay, bye-bye.

- Miss?

- Yes, sir?

It seems to me, looking around, that

it's almost all women working here,

and that they're all very pretty.

Is that common?

Well,

Congressman Wilson,

he has an expression.

He says, "You can teach them to type,

but you can't teach them to grow tits. "

Well, that's charming.

- Larry!

- Congressman!

No, no, no. For $5,000 every two

years you get to call me Charlie.

And for 10,000, you can call me Betty

Sue and I'll clean

out your rain gutters.

This is my daughter, Jane.

Well, now I remember Jane.

Two-L at SMU.

Charlie Wilson's office.

Good morning.

Welcome to the United States Congress.

Hey, I'm gonna talk to your

daddy for a couple of seconds.

Larry, can we get you a drink?

It's 10:
00 in the morning.

Well, fair enough, I guess.

Grab a seat.

Now, this situation with the

creche, I want to know all about it.

Well, sir,

Every single year since

the world was young,

the firehouse in the Nacogdoches

Township has displayed a creche.

Now, the ACLU has filed

suit against the township

for displaying a religious

symbol on public property.

- It's Christmas time.

- It's a creche.

I could understand if we

were in gosh-darn Scarsdale,

but this is east Texas, and I

want to know who we're offending.

Except two lawyers from the ACLU.

That is a terribly interesting

and complicated question.

Let me make this suggestion, though.

There's a church about

a block and a half

from that firehouse, First

Baptist Church of Nacogdoches.

They've got a beautiful rolling

lawn out there in front.

No, no. This is a

Christian country, Charlie,

- founded on Christian values.

- Sure.

We welcome other faiths

to worship as they wish,

but when you can't put a nativity scene

in front of a firehouse at Christmas

time in Nacogdoches Township,

something's gone terribly wrong.

Well, that's not really true, Larry.

You could move that creche

over to that church

and everything's just fine.

That's not the point!

Okay. Why don't we just

start back at the beginning?

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