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Chennault

American  
[shuh-nawlt] / ʃəˈnɔlt /

noun

  1. Claire Lee 1890–1958, U.S. Air Force general.


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They were later absorbed by the U.S. military when it expanded its operations in China and put Chennault in command.

From Seattle Times Oct. 30, 2023

Months earlier, while browsing a website called The Garden Professors, I noticed that a home gardener named Janet Chennault had posted a query asking where she could buy G.M.O. seeds.

From New York Times Jul. 20, 2021

Anna Chennault, a conservative activist and Republican fundraiser, acted as Nixon’s secret back channel to the government of South Vietnam.

From Salon Oct. 5, 2019

Chennault bought her 4,500-square-foot penthouse duplex for $250,000.

From Washington Post May 18, 2018

Born in China in 1925, Chennault was fiercely anti-communist, and chair of the Republican Women for Nixon.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

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