I would be embarrassed making that flub. Then again, although I will never stop being proud of being an American, for the last 3+ plus I've been embarrrrrrrrassed how CombOver Orangeman has run this country .... into the ground.
I suspect she was (IIRC, she right away admitted that she was wrong) but there is no reason for her to dwell on it and it's a mistake that plenty of people can make. For example, I do not remember the first names of Ito, Black, Scholes et al despite their work being a cornerstone of my professional life. PS. It would have been very cool if Black (of the Black-Scholes fame) would have collaborated with White (who created the Hull-White model) - we'd have a Black and White model to talk about
Of course. And the model is based on Brownian motion, so we should add Robert Brown's name to it and call it the Black White and Brown option pricing model. Now we are politically correct.