Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Opening paragraphs................

     When Congressman Charlie Wilson set off for a weekend in Las Vegas on June 27, 1980, there was no confusion in his mind about why he had chosen to stay at Caesars Palace.  He was a man in search of pure decadent pleasure, and the moment he walked into the hotel and say the way the receptionists were dressed, he knew he had come to the right place.  No doubt there were other members of the Ninety-sixth Congress who fantasized about orgies and altered states.  But had any of them chosen to take the kind of plunge that Charlie Wilson had in mind, you can be sure they would have gone to some trouble to maintain a low profile, if not don a disguise.
-George Crile,  Charlie Wilson's War:  The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times

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