From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu May 29 2003 - 22:03:37 MDT
--- MaxPlumm@aol.com wrote:
> 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)
Reagan broke the air traffic controllers union and deregulated the
airlines, thus freeing the average american citizen to fly airliners
without selling their firstborn.
> 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..)
I understand that the Iranians would have named a certain sooty spot of
desert after him, but his name is a curse word in persian... ;)
Carter WAS a sub captain while in the Navy, when he wasn't seeing UFOs.
I'm waiting for the Postal Service to name a stamp printing facility
after former Governor John Sununu (frmr stamp collecting WH Chief of
Staff, resigned for taking AF1 to New York for a stamp convention..)
I'm wondering when the USS Ronald Reagan, our newest aircraft carrier,
is going to go on active duty. A shame it wasn't available for the
present conflict...
=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
- Gen. John Stark
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