President Biden claimed last month at the Naval Academy’s graduation ceremony that he was appointed to the military school in 1965 by the late Sen. J. Caleb Boggs, but a search of Boggs’ archives has failed to turn up evidence to back the claim.
Curators at the Delaware Historical Association in Wilmington were able to find records of Boggs’ academy nominations for just one year in the early 1960s and could not locate records for either 1965 or the more plausible year 1961.
Didn't he also claim to be the Indian Chief in The Village People?
That means, barring evidence from an unlikely third party, that only Biden - who often shares incorrect or exaggerated memories (there's an understatement if ever there was one) - can prove his claim.
“Our staff devoted a large chunk of last week to this project. We hauled and sorted through a few dozen boxes from the relevant years, which proved to be a needle-in-a-haystack proposition, as we feared,” chief curator Leigh Rifenburg said.
Rifenburg said the three-person library staff was able to find a list of Boggs’ academy picks for 1962 after a “box-by-box” search, but that Biden wasn’t on that list. A congressional nomination is needed to attend the academy, but it’s unclear if Boggs nominated candidates each year, Rifenburg said.
As vice president back in 2010, Biden told a 'slightly different' version of the story at the Naval Academy’s graduation that year.
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Pathological liar like most politicians.
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