“Context explains all of this. It has been written like Carson has been fabricating and purporting things out of thin air. It is an assassination attempt, very similar to what happened to Clarence Thomas.”
No the truth explains it all.
In his autobiography, which was the basis of a movie about Carson’s life, Carson wrote that the dinner with Westmoreland took place after he “marched at the head of the Memorial Day parade.†May does not come before February and that’s when the general was in Detroit. He was in Washington DC for Memorial Day 1969.
Westmoreland’s Memorial Day schedule on May 30, 1969, indicates he was in Washington. The schedule says Westmoreland had a morning meeting with national security adviser Henry Kissinger, laid a wreath at an 11 a.m. memorial service in Arlington National Cemetery and had a 5 p.m. “boat ride on the Potomac.â€
You would think that before Carson mentioned in a book that he met with General William Westmreland he could have at least gotten his dates straight. He had no notes? He had no articles from the paper? From his “I love my house”, and the hundreds of certificates and photos of himself plastered all over the walls, I would think he’s never thrown away a piece of paper in his life that had his name on it.
You are ridiculously nit-picking on this. If you hear both sides of this and are reasonable, you cannot believe that the facts support this kind of character assassination. Carson is probably guilty of not knowing that he should antiseptically scrub anything that he has ever thought, believed, or written, ever, even in passing mentioned through authenticity checks conducted by seasoned jot-and-tittlers like yourself. You got me there.