"If I had a choice between a submarine and an airport, I'd choose a submarine." - Jimmy Carter

[gridlore]

So Ronald Reagan has an aircraft carrier and an airport named after him. Jimmy Carter has a nuclear submarine.

The U.S.S. Jimmy Carter was christened today by President and Mrs. Carter.

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[todkaninchen.livejournal.com]

http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/2002/carter-bio.html

"In the Navy he became a submariner, serving in both the Atlantic and Pacific fleets and rising to the rank of lieutenant. Chosen by Admiral Hyman Rickover for the nuclear submarine program, he was assigned to Schenectady, N.Y., where he took graduate work at Union College in reactor technology and nuclear physics, and served as senior officer of the pre-commissioning crew of the Seawolf, the second nuclear submarine."

It's really appropriate...

[bunyip.livejournal.com]

Very appropriate choice of vessel. :)

[aurictech.livejournal.com]

In general, I really don't care for naming US Navy warships after politicians. OTOH, at least Carter was in the Navy (as were John F. Kennedy and George H.W. Bush, both of whom have aircraft carriers named for them; Theodore Roosevelt, who also has a carrier named for him, was Assistant Secretary of the Navy under McKinley).