[wideminded]

I was thinking that perhaps the father visited just before Obama’s eleventh birthday, in other words in 1972. But you are right; the photos of them together in the airport clearly show Christmas trees.

[jellybean]

I can understand if someone's memory is hazy whether something happened when you were 10 or 11, but when you connect it to something easily checked (the Watergate Hearings), it's inexcusable to get the dates wrong.