I thought the Navy only named carriers after presidents.
Not that I have a problem with it. At least it isn’t hussein, or some other affirmative action BS.
Stennis, Nimitz, America off the top of my head...
....wellll......sorta/kinda in this modern era....wait a few years for the U.S.S. William Clinton’s keel to be laid down...owwww; maybe not such a good choice of words....
“I thought the Navy only named carriers after presidents.”
Nope. That’s only in the modern era when we name carriers after politicians except for WWII when FDR died and they named one after him. Take a look through the inspirational names of the first several dozen carriers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_carriers_of_the_United_States_Navy
Thank God Carter turned down being named after a warship. He ended up getting a supply ship or something. Otherwise definitely a carrier would be in his name especially since he’s a naval academy grad and served in the navy.