HOLD IT, NO SARCASM! Our government should reward his accomplishments by naming an aircraft carrier after him. Other carriers have names like the U.S.S. Nimitz, the U.S.S. Dwight Enisenhower, U.S.S. Carl Vinson, U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, and the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, to name a few.
Maybe, but they name carriers after notable Americans, and one example is the Nimitz-Class U.S.S. John C. Stennis. Stennis was a Senator from Mississippi who established a record of longevity in the Senate (1947-1989). He was known for denouncing Senator McCarthy, and served with distinction on the Senate Armed Services committee (1969 - 1980). His activities on the committee labeled him the father of the modern U.S. navy. And later in his life he was elected President Pro Tempore of the Senate, which put him 3rd in the line in the order of presidential succession.
He died in 1995 at the age of 93. The ship was commissioned in the same year.
The U.S.S. Carl Vinson was named after a Georgia Congressman who served in the House of Representatives between 1914 - 1965. The ship was commissioned in 1982.
