[WND] Joe Biden has told another of his stories in an address to the Naval Academy graduates.And it wasn't even hours before its truthfulness was being challenged.
The New York Post said Biden reported applying for the academy, but bluntly said the dates claimed by Biden "don't add up."
"President Biden told graduating midshipmen at the Naval Academy Friday that he applied to the school in 1965 — but a quick check of his biography shows problems with the story," the report said.
Biden claimed he applied with a letter from then-Delaware Sen. J. Caleb Boggs, "but the year he cited — 1965 — is the same year he graduated from the University of Delaware."
"I was told the Class of ’72 is here. I was appointed to the academy in 1965 by a senator who I was running against in 1972 — never planned it that way. I wasn’t old enough to be sworn in. I was only 29 years old when I was running," Biden said. "He was a fine man. His name is J. Caleb Boggs. I didn’t come to the academy because I wanted to be a football star. And you had a guy named [Roger] Staubach and [Joe] Bellino here. So I went to Delaware."
The post reported Bellino and Staubach are the only two Navy players to win the Heisman.
The report explained the U.S. was fully involved in Vietnam by the mid-1960s and had Biden gone to the academy, he would have needed to serve in the Navy on graduation.