Daniel Schorr is used to producers popping into his Washington, D.C., office at National Public Radio to ask, on deadline: Which war came first, Korea or Vietnam? (Answer: Korea.)
But when one asked, "You covered the Spanish-American War, didn't you?” Schorr couldn't help but respond, matter-of-factly: “That was 1898.”“Oh, sorry, of course,” the younger man said, excusing himself.
Sad that Johnson or his editor felt it necessary to provide the answer on the sequence of the wars in Korea and Vietnam.