An informed Seacoast region reader followed up and took me to task about my Feb. 18 column on Gov. Bill Richardson. You can see my response below.
Your article was very good, but I have a bone to pick with Richardson.
Your article mentions that he thought he was offered a job as a Ball player, and he made a mistake. In college he was good, but not that good.
If you check the website Nobelprize.org You will find that there is no way to check that he was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. I think he should have been nominated, but there are only 400 people that are allowed to nominate and they are not allowed to tell if they did.
I have written Richardson time after time about this. Lately he has not said he was nominated, neither did Arnesen on her TV show. but the people introducing him pick that up off the dust cover of his book, and I wish he would take it out of his book in a second edition. and take it off the dust cover. he is worthy of being nominated, but he has not been. We will find out in about 50 years, if he has.
Please do not put that in any other article that you write about him. He has a fantastic resume, but I think he is given to exaggeration and should not say those things until he can prove it. I refuse to work for him until I get a response as to why he thinks he was nominated. If he answers in a way that I can understand, I will work for him. Until then I am looking for another candidate. But Richardson is the best one I see in either party.
MY RESPONSE:
It is true that Richardson's peace prize nomination is more accepted legend than hard fact but, for example, everyone knew Jimmy Carter was nominated for a Nobel for years before he received it -- and Richardson has a strong international reputation with many friends in many high places.
I would clarify in the future that he has been considered for a NPP. To his credit, Richardson doesn't trumpet this credential and wisely lets the press run with it -- which we often foolishly do. I am not alone. Please see NY Times Sunday Magazine of Feb. 4 in a "Questions" segment that also mentions his being nominated -- or considered.
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