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to: Jeff Shultz
from: adam flinton
date: 2003-07-12 00:32:50
subject: Re: USN shipnaming redux

From: adam flinton 

Jeff Shultz wrote:
> 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.
>
Why? Only republican presidents? No USS Jimmy Carter & no USS William Clinton...

Adam

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