FABRICATION: Carson camp admits he made up part of West Point story

Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson has been forced to admit that part of central plank in his personal narrative -- that the top U.S. general in the Vietnam War had guaranteed him admission and a scholarship to West Point -- was fabricated.

In fact, West Point officials, responding to a report published Friday in POLITICO, confirmed that there is no record of Carson ever applying to the elite military academy, much less gaining entrance or a scholarship offer.

But in Carson's 1996 memoir "Gifted Hands," he tells a different story: that the young Carson, a 17-year-old top ROTC officer from Detroit, had dined with Gen. William Westmoreland, who was a fresh out of his command in Vietnam, in 1969. More

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