Harry Reid Lies? Say It Ain't So, Harry!

From the LVRJ: The son of a longtime Nevada congressman disputes that his father said the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was "a good thing," a claim made by Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., in his 2008 autobiography "The Good Fight."
"There is no way my dad would have said anything like that, much less to Harry Reid," said Jeff Baring, 55, son of former Rep. Walter Baring, a conservative Democrat who served more terms in the House of Representatives than any other Nevadan... Jeff Baring suspects Reid has antipathy toward his late father stemming from the elder Baring's drift to the far right that angered his fellow Democrats.
"They didn't care for him because my dad stood up for the little guy. He locked horns with the other guys because he was out for the people who elected him," the younger Baring said.
That may or may not be true. However, this part is telling and tells me that Harry is not telling the truth:
Reid declined to discuss his recollection of the Baring conversation. "With all respect to the family, this was a private conversation, and Senator Reid is not going to get into a debate about it with people who weren't there," spokesman Jon Summers said.
http://www.lvrj.com/news/reids-book-claim-disputed-62315427.html
Umm, Harry, if this was a private conversation, then why did you print it in the book? It must not have been to private at the time when you wrote the book, now was it?
Just another reason why Old Man Harry is not going to be re-elected to the Senate.