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William Edward Franke, ENS, Officer in Charge of PCF 56 served in Vietnam 2/69-9/69 at Cat Lo/An Thoi. [[Weymouth (Wey) Symmes]] served under Franke at that time. [http://216.109.117.135/search/cache?p=%22William+Edward+Franke%22&ei=UTF-8&n=20&fl=0&u=swiftboats.net/&w=%22william+edward+franke%22&d=84ED5149D8&c=482&yc=22950&icp=1]
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On May 14, 2004, Joe Conason [http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2004/05/14/gannon/ writes] in ''Salon'':
:"Franke is well known in Missouri as a longtime [[Republican Party]] activist and financier. In 1976, he managed [[John Danforth]]'s victorious Senate campaign; two years later, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress. He also failed in an attempt to resuscitate the defunct ''St. Louis Globe-Democrat'' (which was, despite its name, a staunchly Republican newspaper) in 1986. Before the ''Globe-Democrat'' finally went under in 1987, Franke had obtained a commitment from the state industrial development authority -- all of whose members were appointed by then Gov. [[John Ashcroft]] -- to raise $9 million in tax-exempt revenue bonds to keep the paper afloat.
:"Last June, Franke gave the maximum $2,000 to the [[Bush-Cheney '04 Inc.]] campaign, and he has since donated an additional $2,000 to House Majority Leader [[Tom DeLay]]'s [[political action committee]], [[Americans for a Republican Majority]], and $2,000 more to [[Keep Our Majority]], the PAC operated by House Speaker [[J. Dennis Hastert]]."
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