Well, the actual text from the book is below. I don't think he claimed to have applied to West Point. It's not the most precise prose, but it seems he's saying he met Gen. Westmoreland at an event, and had dinner with him and others.Ibanez wrote:AZGrizFan wrote:Aaaaaaaannnnndddd.....done.
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Goodbye, Dr. Carson. Candidates have quit over less.
Dean Scream, anyone?
Btw, Carson is denying it all.
Gen. Westmoreland and the others there offered him a spot at West Point. Carson told "them" (apparently that same night) that he wasn't interested because he wanted to be a doctor. Which is precisely what the campaign's press release says.
Now I've been in the company of some people with influence at West Point, and I know that these insiders do say things like this. I've been significantly involved with people with West Point ties, planning joint events for the recent Fordham/Army football games. They've "offered" my son a spot at West Point, and they speak with certainty: if he wants it, he's in. I don't have any doubt they can deliver.
Surely, in 1969, if Gen. Westmoreland picked up the phone for you, you were in, no questions asked. I suspect that is what they conveyed to him, and that is what he was saying in the book.
"Afterward, Sgt. Hunt introduced me to General Westmoreland, and I had dinner with him and the Congressional Medal winners. Later I was offered a full scholarship to West Point. I didn't refuse the scholarship outright, but I let them know that a military career wasn't where I saw myself going."
This is a favorite trick of "journalists" today -- interpret someone's words -- which are reasonably susceptible to another, more rational interpretation -- and then call him a liar.
Never trust the characterizations of a journalist. Go to the primary source, and read it for yourself.
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