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To: Wolfstar

I assume given the recent tradition of naming the recent Nimitz class carriers after presidents that Slick Willy will come up. I wonder how the officers and enlisted men will think about serving on a ship with Clinton's name on it.


19 posted on 07/15/2004 11:25:10 AM PDT by mkj6080
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To: mkj6080

I think the only way Slick Willy gets an aircraft carrier named after him is if the Dems retake congress. While that's bound to happen someday, I hope it's so far in the future that Slick Willy is little more than a dim memory and the last person anyone would think of when naming a ship.


25 posted on 07/15/2004 11:32:31 AM PDT by Wolfstar (Get off your duffs and VOTE for Bush-Cheney in Nov. Your life may depend on it.)
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To: mkj6080

"I assume given the recent tradition of naming the recent Nimitz class carriers after presidents that Slick Willy will come up. I wonder how the officers and enlisted men will think about serving on a ship with Clinton's name on it."

They should build a miniature bent-shaped sub and named it after Slick.

It would small, bent, and full of seamen.


45 posted on 07/15/2004 12:00:30 PM PDT by adam_az (Call your State Republican Party office and VOLUNTEER!!!!)
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To: mkj6080

My understanding is that the USS George H.W. Bush will be the last Nimitz class carrier. Whew! :-)


56 posted on 07/15/2004 12:31:48 PM PDT by My2Cents ("Well.....there you go again.")
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To: mkj6080
I assume given the recent tradition of naming the recent Nimitz class carriers after presidents that Slick Willy will come up

Hell will freeze over before there's a USS Clinton, unless it's the garbage scow somewhere in the Aleutians.

83 posted on 07/15/2004 1:24:45 PM PDT by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
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To: mkj6080

Not all presidents have had ships/subs/carriers named after them, have they? I'm surprised though, that they didn't have one of the above named after John Adams! In the book written about him by David McCullough, a few years ago; there was part where he advocated a strong Navy.

He referred to ships as "wooden walls", and wanted to see many built. He also did a lot of travel as an ambassador on them.(Of course, that was the only way of crossing the ocean in those days, I know!) If they did have something named after him, I'd never heard of it!


116 posted on 07/15/2004 10:58:40 PM PDT by dsutah
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