If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.
Source: Peter's Quotations, (Laurence J. Peter)
-- I F Stone, (Dec 24 1907-1989), US journalist, pamphleteer, author; The Godfather of New Left Journalism edited the newsletter I F Stone's Bi-Weekly, 1953-71; wrote Underground to Palestine, 1946.