[Teacher317]

CVN 76 named for Reagan, for winning the Cold War without firing a shot...
CVN 77 named for George H Bush for liberating Kuwait...
After the Iraqi liberation and the big hullabaloo about George W Bush landing on a carrier, it isn't too unlikely that he will have a future (super-)carrier named after him.

Hmmm, it seems like they've skipped a President in there somewhere. Now who could that be and why would they choose to not honor him? Hmmmm. Could it be that randomly bombing numerous other nations without any decisive results or plan doesn't warrant such an honor?

And looking backwards, there's a previous President who stood idly by as over 100 Americans were held hostage for 444 days who also isn't going to have a carrier named after him. Imagine that!

Carriers named for Presidents:
1945 - FDR
1968 - JFK
1977 - Eisenhower
1986 - Teddy Roosevelt
1989 - Lincoln
1992 - George Washington
1998 - Truman
2003? - Reagan
2007? - GHWBush

(Interesting... only six of the 77 carriers hulls were ever sunk by enemy action! The Langley, Lexington, Princeton, Hornet, Wasp, and Yorktown, all from 1942 to 1951.)

[Non-Sequitur]

Hmmm, it seems like they've skipped a President in there somewhere.

With the naming of CVN-77 for Bush senior the floodgate has been opened so wait'll the next Democrat elected to the Oval Office. There will be a carrier named after Clinton, mark my word.

[qam1]

(Interesting... only six of the 77 carriers hulls were ever sunk by enemy action! The Langley, Lexington, Princeton, Hornet, Wasp, and Yorktown, all from 1942 to 1951.)

I didn't think any Carrier was sunk after WWII in 1945.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Princeton, CVL-23, was the last carrier sunk due to enemy action, on 24 October 1944.