You are absolutely right. But FJB was correcting spelling rather than definition. Had he said “In that context it would be bar and not barre” I would totally agree.
" They ignore the truth of what anybody actually says." Here’s a simple solution . . . and a simple route to innocence confirmation. Let the “truth” be heard in court. What a novel idea to solve a criminal (or civil fraud) question.
Yup. His voice will have changed but his breath will still be the same.