After Mr. Peanut got a Seawolf sub named after him, I realized, sadly, that Clinton will probably get some sort of namesake. I hope it's a garbage barge.
...believe it or not, there is such a thing for
Mr. Slick Willie...... the classification for
such as you mention, if I recall my Navy days,
is a "YGN" which stands for "Y" - utility vessel;
"G" - garbabe barge; "N" - non-self-propelled.....!!
a perfect vessel to be name after the former
Liar-in-Chief..... free cigars and blue dresses to
be given away at its commissioning.....
I heard that the crew of that submarine never refer to it by anything but its number.
Ah, but think about it. Carter was President. Carter was a bubblehead (submariner), one of Rickover's boys. And you'll never hear about a sub in the news, unless it screws up. When an international crisis happens, the President doesn't ask, "Where is the nearest sub?" he asks, "Where is the nearest carrier?"
Of all the ships since WWII named after Presidents, only 2 were NOT carriers....the sub Carter, and the destroyer Roosevelt, but FDR also was the name of a carrier, CV-42)
Since the end of the Essex class,
CV-41 Midway (WWII battle)
CV-42 Franklin D. Roosevelt (originally planned to be the Coral Sea, named was changed before christening because of FDR's death)
CV-43 Coral Sea (WWII battle)
44 - 57 skipped
CV-58 United States, cancelled shortly after keel laying
CV-59 Forrestal (first Secretary of Defense)
CV-60 Saratoga (Revolutionary War battle, also CV-3)
CV-61 Ranger (also CV-4)
CV-62 Independence
*CV-63 Kitty Hawk (Wright brothers first flew there)
CV-64 Constellation (original "Connie" was sister ship of the Constitution)
*CVN-65 Enterprise (first nuke, also CV-6)
CV-66 America
*CV-67 John F. Kennedy (last conventionally powered)
*CVN-68 Nimitz (Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, CINCPACFLT during WWII)
*CVN-69 Dwight D. Eisenhower
*CVN-70 Carl Vinson (Congressman, served 50+ years, oversaw the beginning of the 2-ocean Navy)
*CVN-71 Theodore Roosevelt
*CVN-72 Abraham Lincoln
*CVN-73 George Washington
*CVN-74 John C. Stennis (Senator, served 41+ years)
*CVN-75 Harry S. Truman
*CVN-76 Ronald Reagan
CVN-77 George H. W. Bush
* denotes ships currently operational
He won't go away, so they'll name a hover craft after him...cigar shaped.