From: Jeff Shultz 

adam flinton wrote:

> 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...
>
Jimmy Carter, a former Navy submariner, will have the 3rd (I think) of the
Seawolf class subs named after him. Clinton did nothing worthy of naming
one after him, the draft dodger.

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Jeff Shultz

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