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"Bob wonders... how many other words have six letters?"
Bob Graham political cartoon.

July 16, 2003 … This is the story yesterday that political news outlets just couldn’t resist: Graham, a six-letter name, believes “deceit” is a five-letter word. Excerpts from AP coverage of Graham’s Miami Beach comments: “Democratic presidential candidate Bob Graham, in sharply criticizing President Bush's veracity about Iraq's weapons programs, got a bit confused about the number of letters in the word ‘deceit.’ Graham, who participated in a candidate's forum at the NAACP convention, was asked if the president lied to the American people when he said in his State of the Union address that Iraq had been trying to buy uranium in Africa to develop nuclear weapons - a claim the White House has acknowledged should not have been included. ‘I would not use the three-letter word,’ the Florida senator told reporters. ‘I would use the five-letter word: deceit. That he deceived the American people by allowing into a State of the Union speech at a critical point when he was making the case for war with Iraq, a statement that he either knew was wrong or should have known was wrong.’ If Democrats were in control of the House, Graham was asked if he would support impeachment. ‘If the standard of impeachment that the Republicans set for Bill Clinton - a personal, consensual relationship was the basis for impeachment, would not a president who knowingly deceived the American people about something as important as whether to go to war meet the standard of impeachment?’ Graham asked.”