"It was this week in 1987 when Joe Biden’s first presidential campaign self-destructed after a series of damaging revelations about his intellectual honesty.
- ...The first blow came when several reporters were tipped by a rival campaign to the fact that Biden had recited portions of the life story of British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock as his own, without attribution....
- Within days, reporters had found examples of Biden using the words of other famous orators without credit, including a word-for-word lifting of a 1968 speech by Robert F. Kennedy about how the Gross National Product doesn’t “measure the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play.”
- Then reporters found out Biden had committed plagiarism in law school, “for lifting without citation five pages from a published law review,” as the Washington Post’s Paul Taylor explained in a September 18, 1987 article..."
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