I still don't see where he's actually created any wealth.
But I grant you it takes a certain talent at self-aggrandizement and sucking up to parlay four months of bogus Nam "heroics" into a relationship with Ted Kennedy that can be used as a springboard to a Senatorial, umm, "career."
One of the tenets I live by is "Never underestimate anyone".
FMCDH(BITS)