From: Jeff Shultz 

Adam Flinton wrote:

> What with the Ronald Reagan about to be commisioned...I read that the
> next one will be the HW Bush.....
>
>
> Naming ships after living people is bizarre....after living
> ex-presidents even more so as one would have to assume that given r
> reagan followed by the HW Bush that sets a precendent & the next will be
> the Bill Clinton & then the GW Bush etc.
>
> One has to hope that the US carrier building program will slow as
> otherwise... one may have to be christened the "USS still to be chosen
> by the US public".
>
> Adam

I think the USS Carl Vinson was the first. It's unfortunate that it's all
gotten so politicized. And I can pretty much guarantee you that there won't
be a USS Billy-Bob Clinton.

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Jeff Shultz

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