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George Crile III with Charles Wilson ( Texas politician ) | Charlie Wilson in Afghanistan.
The documentary, shown on January 23, 1982, and prepared largely by CBS producer George Crile III, alleged that Westmoreland and others had deliberately underestimated Viet Cong troop strength during 1967 in order to maintain US troop morale and domestic support for the war.
It was a complex web of relationships described in George Crile III's book Charlie Wilson's War.
* Charlie Wilson's War ( based on the book by George Crile ) ( 2007 )
His behind-the-scenes campaign was the subject of the non-fiction book Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile and a subsequent film adaptation starring Tom Hanks as Wilson.
According to biographer George Crile III, Wilson called the staff of the House Appropriations Committee dealing with " black appropriations " and requested a two-fold appropriation increase for Afghanistan.
Charlie Wilson with George Crile III ( left ) in Afghanistan.
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George Washington Crile ( November 11, 1864, Chili, Ohio – January 7, 1943, Cleveland, Ohio ) was a significant American surgeon.
His son George Crile, Jr. was also a surgeon.
His grandson George Crile III was a journalist, author, and CBS producer.
pl: George Crile
From 1914 to 1915, three years prior to America entering the war, Dr. George Crile and nurse anesthetists Agatha Hodgins and Mabel Littleton served in the Lakeside Unit at the American Ambulance at Neuilly-sur-Seine in France.
* George Washington Crile ( 1910-1924 Chair of Surgery )- Performed first blood transfusion.
* George Crile, founder of the Cleveland Clinic and inventor of the system for blood transfusion.
The 90-minute program, produced by George Crile III and narrated by Mike Wallace, asserted that in 1967 intelligence officers under General William Westmoreland, the commander of Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, had manipulated intelligence estimates in order to show far fewer communist personnel in South Vietnam than there actually were, thereby creating the impression that the Vietnam War was being won.
* Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile

George and Charlie
* 1896 – Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus ( 1922 – 1979 ), who was also a composer and bandleader whose music fused hard bop with black gospel music, free jazz and classical music ; free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden ( born 1937 ) is best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman and for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimental group ; Eddie Gomez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations of pizzicato fluency and melodic phrasing, fusion virtuoso Stanley Clarke ( born 1951 ) is notable for his dexterity on both the upright bass and the electric bass, and Terry Plumeri, noted for his horn-like arco fluency and vocal tone.
She portrayed a child prostitute, Charlie Chiemingo, taken under the guidance of Dr. Doug Ross, played by George Clooney.
Legendary ruck combo of Charlie Hardy, Syd Barker and George Rawle.
( Prestige Records ) with Eric Dolphy, Charlie Persip, Mal Waldron, George Duvivier
* August 16 – Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in the Klondike.
In August, 1896, George Carmack, Kate Carmack, Keish, Dawson Charlie and Patsy Henderson, members of a Tagish First Nations family group, discovered rich placer gold deposits in Bonanza ( Rabbit ) Creek, Yukon, Canada.
The team played on a strictly amateur basis for 1895 at least, with a team featuring a number of works employees including Thomas Freeman ( ships fireman ), Walter Parks ( clerk ), Tom Mundy, Walter Tranter and James Lindsay ( all boilermakers ), William Chapman, George Sage, and William Chamberlain and apprentice riveter Charlie Dove.
Charlie and Juliette stay at the famous Hotel George V in Paris, where Kate has her encounters with the supercilious concierge.
It starred David Brooks as Tommy, George Keane as Jeff, Marion Bell as Fiona, Lee Sullivan as Charlie, Virginia Bosler as Jeannie, James Mitchell as Harry, and Pamela Britton as Meg.
Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.
The Jacobite army, under Charles Edward Stuart (" Bonnie Prince Charlie ") captured Edinburgh without a fight in September 1745, but the castle remained in the hands of the ageing Deputy Governor, General George Preston, who refused to surrender.
* George E. Stone as " Toothpick " Charlie
The first battalion would be made up of Able, Baker, Charlie, and Dog Companies, while the second would have Easy, Fox, George, and How Companies.
Although Keegan's Southampton career only lasted two years, Saints fielded an attractive side also containing Alan Ball, prolific scorer of goals Ted MacDougall, ( who still holds the record for the largest number of goals in an FA Cup game – 9 – for Bournemouth against Margate in an 11 – 0 win ), MacDougall's strike partner at Bournemouth and Norwich Phil Boyer, club stalwart Mick Channon and Charlie George and in 1980 – 81 they scored 76 goals, finishing in sixth place, then their highest league finish.
* Charlie George, the legendary Arsenal footballer, grew up in this area and attended Holloway School.
The first city elections were held on April 19, 1869 at which the following officials were elected: George F. Stearns, Mayor ; Charlie Gay, Recorder ; W. Irving Latimer, Treasurer ; and William Van Loo, Supervisor.
Some of the most famous included Larry Storch, Dallas McKennon ( best known as the voice of Archie in the Archie cartoon and as Cincinnatus, in the Daniel Boone TV series ), Adam West and Burt Ward ( who recreated their roles as " Batman and Robin " from their 1960s live-action series for Filmation's 1977 animated incarnation ), Jane Webb, and good friends and colleagues Ed Asner and Linda Gary ( Gary voiced a majority of Filmation's work in the 1980s ), along with John Erwin ( voice of Reggie Mantle, and later the voice of He-Man ), Alan Oppenheimer ( character actor in TV and film ), Ted Knight, George DiCenzo ( John BlackStar, Hordak, Bow on She-ra ), Melendy Britt, Howard Morris, Pat Fraley, Charlie Adler, Ed Gilbert, Susan Blu, Erika Scheimer ( daughter of Lou Scheimer ), and even Lou Scheimer himself ( either uncredited, or under the pseudonym of " Erik ( sometimes " Eric ") Gunden ").
Featured artists in 2006 and 2007 included the Charlie Daniels Band, Dwight Yoakam, Kathy Griffin and George Jones.
* Past Marshals ... Vance Lloyd, Ernie Dillon, Joe Ott, George Hannah & Jeff Hannah ( George's Father ), Charlie Powell
Great names in the history of dummy making include Frank Marshall ( the Chicago creator of Bergen's Charlie McCarthy, Nelson's Danny O ' Day, and Winchell's Jerry Mahoney ), Theo Mack and Son ( Mack carved Charlie McCarthy's head ), Revello Petee, Kenneth Spencer, David Strassman, Cecil Gough, Jeff Dunham, and Glen & George McElroy.
Other teachers were Jasper Starling, Asilee Hyde, Charlie Bowden, Quarles McClure, and George B. Terrell.

George and Wilson's
He left letters to Wilson's mother, Bowers ' mother, a string of notables including his former commander Sir George Egerton, his own mother and his wife.
He defeated George Brown, who was hampered by a reputation as an erratic figure and who was mistrusted by the likes of Denis Healey ( Wilson's predecessor as shadow foreign secretary ) and Anthony Crosland, in a straight contest in the second round of balloting, after James Callaghan, who had entered the race as an alternative to Brown, had been eliminated in the first round.
The DEA itself was in part intended to serve as an expansionary counter-weight to what Labour saw as the conservative influence of the Treasury, though the appointment of Wilson's deputy, George Brown, as the Minister in charge of the DEA was something of a two-edged sword, in view of Brown's reputation for erratic conduct ; in any case the government's decision over its first three years to defend sterling's parity with traditional deflationary measures ran counter to hopes for an expansionist push for growth.
* George Wilson Jr .-Mr. Wilson's Son.
* George Wilson III-Mr. Wilson's Grandson.
Although the United States promoted Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points and the ideals of self-determination at the conference, Wilson was unable to advance these ideals in the face of stubborn resistance by David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau and the U. S. Congress.
Curry is mentioned in the novels Center Cut and Bad Lie by John Corrigan, Outlaws by George V. Higgins, and Wilson's Women: A Novel of Mystery and Revenge by James W. Ryan.
People in Europe generally welcomed Wilson's intervention, but his Allied colleagues ( Georges Clemenceau, David Lloyd George and Vittorio Emanuele Orlando ) were skeptical of the applicability of Wilsonian idealism.
Wilson's funeral was a public affair attended by Lloyd George and the cabinet, Foch, Nivelle and Weygand from France as well as many of his former army colleagues including French, Macready, Haig and Robertson.
Pete Wilson was elected Governor of California to succeed outgoing two-term Republican governor George Deukmejian, who chose not to seek a third term in 1990, defeating former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein, who would go on to be elected to Wilson's former U. S. Senate seat two years later.
* Mrs. Martha Wilson ( Sylvia Field ) – George Wilson's wife who's a loving, grandmotherly-type neighbor that enjoys Dennis ' company ( 1959 – 1962 ).
* Mr. John Wilson ( Gale Gordon ) – George Wilson's brother ( 1962 – 1963 ).
* The area is mentioned in comedian Tim Wilson's song " George Is On My Mind ( The George Song )", possibly because its name is close to being " George " and because Wilson is actually from Georgia.
Critics of Wilson's approach, including Douglas Jay, suspected the main reason for the Department was to appease George Brown, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.
* One episode of the short lived TV series, The Critic, features main character Jay Sherman reviewing a movie titled Dennis the Menace II Society, in which Dennis the Menace pulls out two machine guns and shoots up George Wilson's house.
Tom Brown became president of NNE, and Geordie Wilson, George W. Wilson's son, became publisher of the Monitor.
Brown retired in 2009 and was replaced by Aaron Julien, George W. Wilson's son-in-law.
Wilson's press secretary Joe Haines claims that the pair first met at a dinner with the Soviet premier, Nikita Khrushchev, at which Khrushchev and the Labour MP George Brown had a drunken argument, which Williams took down in shorthand.
Derby got the Prime Minister to agree that Robertson should accompany Wilson ( British Military Representative ) to all Supreme War Council meetings, although Lloyd George then restored Wilson's freedom of action by instructing Wilson to send his reports directly to him.

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