A few people I ran track with in high school went to the service academies. It's a long process to apply, and there is no tuition at these academies. There are no scholarships to the Naval Academy,etc.

Unless things were different in Carson's day....just a clear case of Carson and the biographer stretching the truth for whatever reason.


Media did succeed in tripping Carson up and getting him to admit that he lied, which was their aim I guess.