Then why not write what he recalled rather than the fiction that is in the book? I just don't understand... Was Carson lying in his book, or was the book written by someone else?
OMG! He wrote these books years ago, and a ghost writer helped him at least on the second one. I assume he and the ghost writer did not think he was applying to be President of the US or any other job. They were trying to convey his recollections about his youth and how he was able to go from an angry young man to a brain surgeon, I suppose. There was a whole heck of things corroborated about his story, if you go into it without the preconceived idea you want your “gotcha” takeaway. His recollection of his meeting with Westmoreland was corroborated, but it was a different month than he recalled, apparently. It was freaking 1969, for God sake, and he was a young, impressionable kid who may have remembered a scholarship offer that was merely an encouragement to “apply and you’d probably be a shoe-in” type of conversation. The point in the book was to mention that he had some other very tempting things to pursue but he really wanted to pursue medicine. There is really no there, there, unless you are hell-bent on pouncing on every jot-and-tittle.