From: MaxPlumm@aol.com
Date: Thu May 29 2003 - 20:01:31 MDT
Lee Corbin wrote:
"Of course, Americans are not free of the same impulses by any
means! I think that there was a short stretch of freeway named
the "Richard M. Nixon" freeway in southern California, until the
Watergate fiasco occurred, and the freeway renamed."
Currently the stretch of highway leading into Yorba Linda (the site of the Nixon library) is known as the "Richard Nixon Parkway." Personally, I consider it shabby that the National Zoo in Washington doesn't bear his name, considering his actions made possible the acquisition of their most famous attraction, the giant pandas. I think this only fair-given our national airport is named after President Reagan (not that I'm necessarily opposed to that, but I wonder if anyone knows the logic and reasoning behind that decision) and Jimmy Carter(!) has a submarine named in his honor. (the reasoning for that is understandable, if the choice a bit confusing. Perhaps the USS Malaise was taken..)
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