Wilson’s war

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Charlie Wilson’s War Transcript

C- Charlie

A- Assistant

D- Donelly

C-All right, what else?

A-That Dairy Queen guy, Larry Liddle, is sitting in your office.

C-Yeah, I told him he could come in.

A-He wants to talk to you about a crèche.

C-What, a nativity scene with baby Jesus?

A-Yeah, it's on public property, and the city's making him move it.

C-Shoot. I thought he was just coming in to get his picture took, you know?

D- Congressman.

C- Yeah?

D- You're exactly who I need to speak to. You have a moment?

C- Sure.

D- Tip asked me to talk to you.

C- Okay.

D-He wanted me to talk to you about John Murtha.

C- Go ahead.

D- The prosecutor's going to go after him.

C-Well, they ain't gonna find anything. John Murtha's as clean as my mother's kitchen floor.

D-Yeah, but Tip would like to put you on the Ethics Committee just the same.

C- You're kidding.

D- No.

C-Well, Donnelly, everyone in town knows I'm on the other side of that issue.

D- Ethics?

C- Yeah!

D-Well, the Speaker would like to put you on the committee anyway.

C- Okay. Well, if anyone asks what I'm doing on the Ethics Committee, we'll just tell them I like chasing women and drinking whiskey and the Speaker felt we were underrepresented.

A- One man, one vote.

C- Exactly.

D -Tip's gonna want to return the favor.

D-So if anything comes up would you'd like me to speak with him about, please…

C-Yes.Yes! I'd like to be on the Board of Directors of the Kennedy Center.

A- Charlie!

C- I'm sorry, it turns out Congress appoints the Board of Directors of the Kennedy Center. It's a great place to take a date, and I can never afford the tickets.

D- Consider it done.

C- Excellent.

A-Go vote.

C-Another few minutes. Let's see what's on the wires.

A-Why can't you wait for newspapers like everybody else?

C-'Cause I think it's productive to know today's news today. And it makes me one day smarter than you, which I enjoy as well.

A-I know you do. You don't think that's a little crazy?

C-Pan Am and Eastern are lowering their fares.

A-'Cause of Braniff.

C-What's a little crazy?

A-Joining the Board of the Kennedy Center so you can get free tickets to the Royal Ballet of…

C- Hold on.

A- What?

C-AP story out of Kabul.

A-Uzbekistan?

C-Afghanistan. Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel, Egypt. Jim Van Wagenen's our point man on black approps for the Defense Subcommittee?

A-Yeah.

C-Have him come to my office as soon as possible. How am I voting on this?

A- Yes.

C- You sure?

A- Yes.

C-The Boy Scouts?

A-Uh huh.

C-Jim Van Wagenen. Get him and show him that wire story.

A- Yes, sir.

Questions
Artifacts are at the first level of organizational culture and are the

easiest to see. Which artifacts did you observe in this sequence?

  1. Values appear at the next level of organizational culture. You can

infer a culture’s values from the behavior of organizational members.

Which values appear in this sequence?

  1. Organizational members will unconsciously behave according to an

organization culture’s assumptions. You also can infer these from

observed behavior. Which assumptions appear in this sequence?