William McKinley: if Trump gets to name a carrier after his apparent favorite President, maybe he'll be less inclined to revert the Denali name and/or name a carrier after himself.
I will avoid the obvious fat jokes about Taft and merely note that he was the colonial governor of the Philippines, which was all about naval power and control of the Pacific.
Taft. Nominally progressive but not regressive IIRC. And becoming Chief Justice is pretty cool. Taft, bracketed by more historic Presidencies, wasn't bad (was he?) Most of that list is objectively terrible! Can't say I know a thing about the Arthur presidency however.
Honestly, given that Fillmore authorized the Perry expedition -- which feels like the antecedent of a carrier group parking offshore somewhere -- I think he might have the best case.
What did we name after James Buchanan? On wikipedia it says the USS Buchanan was named after some Confederate admiral (which somehow manages to be worse).
Personally I don't think *any* public building, monument, military installation, naval vessel, etc. should be named after any living person, no matter who they are. Maybe also require them to be dead for at least 10 years, to allow for any scandalous/bad post-mortem info about them to be considered.
William Henry Harrison because (1) we don’t spend enough time outside of tenth grade talking about Tippecanoe; and (2) we could end up with a canoe on a CBG patch
Pierce and Harding weren’t particularly good presidents, but both names would sound kinda badass on a ship. I do like the idea of the USS Nixon though because you know they’ll nickname it the Tricky Dick
Hoover. Because his inability to manage the economy, exacerbated by Congress, allowed conditions to blossom globally that led to WWII, the result of which allowed us to craft the rules of the liberal international order and made us a superpower.
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Carriers are our largest ships
Taft is our largest president
He certainly does not deserve a ship.
(makes as much sense as naming one after W)