Charlie Wilson's War Transcript to the Video
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?
- 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?
- 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?