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Chennault

American  
[shuh-nawlt] / ʃəˈnɔlt /

noun

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


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Chennault founded the Flying Tigers as a group of American pilots flying for China’s air force.

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

“Watergate came into its own as the residential seat of power, becoming in the Nixon era what Georgetown had been in the Kennedy years,” explained hostess Anna Chennault.

From Washington Post ● May 18, 2018

Chennault relayed the messages to Bui Diem, South Vietnam’s ambassador to the United States, and he cabled the notes to Thieu in Saigon.

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

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