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Actually I kind of liked old uncle Ted, but that airport naming thing got under my skin a bit. I had never heard of a public facility named after a living politician before.

 

Really? It's standard practice in the Northeast.

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Actually I kind of liked old uncle Ted, but that airport naming thing got under my skin a bit. I had never heard of a public facility named after a living politician before.

Didn't it also have something to do with his wife being killed in a plane crash there (almost killing him as well)? I read somewhere that in 1978 he predicted that he would die in a plane crash.

 

The former head of NASA was also on the plane. Sucks.

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Didn't it also have something to do with his wife being killed in a plane crash there (almost killing him as well)? I read somewhere that in 1978 he predicted that he would die in a plane crash.

The former head of NASA was also on the plane. Sucks.

 

Wow, if this is true I think I've found my new hero.

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The USS Jimmy Carter.:

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jimmy_Carter_%28SSN-23%29

 

 

One would have thought it would have been an inflatable...

 

Always surprised they didn't name a missile sub after him, what with their motto being "We Hide With Pride".

 

 

(But seriously...Carter was a sub officer, so naming one after him isn't senseless.)

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Always surprised they didn't name a missile sub after him, what with their motto being "We Hide With Pride".

 

 

(But seriously...Carter was a sub officer, so naming one after him isn't senseless.)

 

If they wanted to laud Jimmy, they should have named it the USS Ayatollah Khomeini...

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