Time reported that he took Russian because his brother had learned it in the military when the truth was that this was the easiest way to "earn" his language requirement from a senile nun who only gave As.
More amusingly they also claimed he could throw a football 60 yards without it going over 10 feet above ground... but on my physics final that year we got extra credit for calculating the velocity that would require IN A VACUUM... and as i recall it was in excess of 200mph.
Finally they asserted he could hit the square on a backboard from the full length of the court 6 out of ten times... but when I played intermural basketball with him he only hit the backboard itself 2 out of 10.
Our MSM has always been full of BS.