I'd make a couple of guesses there: #1. Edmund Carpenter's writing style always seems a lot like he's writing things from memory and potentially embellishing a

I'd make a couple of guesses there: #1. Edmund Carpenter's writing style always seems a lot like he's writing things from memory and potentially embellishing a bit along the way to make a point. Fact checking for writer and reader wasn't so easy in the pre-Internet days. #2. This was a proposition from the opposition, and even Wikipedia says "all through his political life, Humphrey was dogged by the charge that he was a draft dodger", so the team may have intended to bend the truth on purpose.