Former Vice President Joe Biden acknowledged Friday he had not been arrested in apartheid South Africa when visiting Nelson Mandela in prison in the 1970s.
acknowledged Friday he had not been arrested in apartheid South Africa when visiting Nelson Mandela in prison in the 1970s, despite previously saying so on the campaign trail.
"I said arrested. I meant I was not able to move," he told CNN."I guess I wasn't arrested. I was stopped. I wasn't able to go where I wanted to go." His correction to the story caps off a controversy over the origins of an account fact-checkers at the Washington Post had“I had the great honor of meeting him,” Biden said while campaigning in South Carolina, according to a
story this month. “I had the great honor of being arrested with our U.N. ambassador on the streets of Soweto trying to get to see him.”reporters the story had referred to the trip in the 1970s and that he "was separated from his party at the airport."
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