Cape Kennedy, Cape Canaveral and rednecks

[Cyrano]

Whatever is named after Ted Kennedy, don’t hold your breath for the name to stick.

Jack Kennedy challenged us to get to the moon within ten years and we did it in eight. In 1963, the name Cape Canaveral was changed to Cape Kennedy.

In 1973, the Florida legislature, backed by every redneck in the region, officially dumped Cape Kennedy and changed the name back to Cape Canaveral. Just how much of a miserable prick do you have to be to do something like that?

Do you suppose that when the thugs regain power, they’ll add Dubys’s face to Mr. Rushmore?

[saigon68]

1. They can add his ass

[Maine-ah]

9. ass/face same thing.

[Resuscitated Ethics]

2. what about Washington National Airport?

MONTHS after the cretin left office, the air traffic controllers firings still fresh, changed to "Reagan national"?

It's still "national" to me.

[Cyrano]

3. Whenever possible, I avoid flying into or out of "National." It's cursed.

[onenote]

14. evidence of this "curse"?

[Patiod]

11. Me too. it was already named after a GOOD president

why would they named it after one who set this country on a path to destruction?

[n2doc]

17. They changed its name during the * regime

And it cost the taxpayers plenty to change all the signs for it as well. I'd LOVE to see it changed back to National, I'd even contribute to a kitty to offset costs.

But it will never happen as the Dems have no balls and no spine. Half of them are really republicans hiding out while the fallout from the * regime settles, anyway.

[MissDeeds]

23. I will never call it "Reagan" National

And neither will anyone in my family. :thumbsdown:

[Captain Hilts]

30. "Reagan NAP." nt

[Dennis Donovan]

4. Well, in all fairness, FDR changed the name of Hoover Dam to Boulder Dam...

...because he and SecInt Harold Ickes (yes, THAT Harold Ickes' father) HATED Hoover with every fibre of their being... After FDR and Ickes were out of government, the name was changed back to Hoover Dam.

[Cyrano]

5. Okay. So when do we get to restore the name Cape Kennedy?

[Dennis Donovan]

7. Perhaps when FL is a Dem stronghold again - AND when we raise a stink about it...

I'm a 100% behind the name change BACK to Cape Kennedy.:thumbsup:

[onenote]

13. never going to happen

Even Jackie acknowledged that it was a mistake to rename not just the Space Center, but the entire Cape, which had been named "Canaveral" for nearly 400 years.

[Obamanaut]

24. I think it would be better to just allow Mass to flip/flop from time to

time on how to fill senate vacancies, and allow the residents of Cape Canaveral keep the same historical name they grew up with.

[Recursion]

18. Wait. Seriously?

Lizard-men Harold Ickes?

[Captain Hilts]

22. Harold, senior was probably THE leading progressive in the admin.w/ Hopkins, Wallace and Eleanor

It was Eleanor, then Ickes - who had been Prez of the Illinois NAACP - that arranged Marian Anderson's concert. Here's Harold and Marian:

[Captain Hilts]

19. Bad form by FDR and Ickes. But Hoover spent the '30s making speeches trashing FDR...

which was NOT cool.

FDR, and ER had been big Hoover fans in the '20s, but when he invited all the governors to the White House in April, 1932 and made them all stand, that's STAND and wait for him to receive them in the East Room for nearly an hour, that was it for the Roosevelts. That night it was up to Eleanor to hold FDR up and, evidently, they were both sweating like NBA players at the foul line. Folks kept coming up and offering FDR a chair, which he declined.

After that, the Roosevelts wanted to squash him like a bug.

[Dennis Donovan]

25. An important part that I left out (unintentionally)...

Hoover was a PRICK to FDR during the 1933 Inaugural. Thanks for bringing that up!:hi:

[Captain Hilts]

29. Yes, it's odd. Hoover and Carter were both engineers, good, moral men with good marriages...

that were pretty starchy.

Hoover also declined FDR's request in 1940 to have Hoover work with Eleanor running a refugee board.

So, actually, Truman's saying that FDR "never called Hoover" etc isn't true.

Hi there back at you!

[onenote]

6. a little history:

Cape Canaveral -- the entire Cape, not just the space center built there -- was named by the Spanish in the 1500s. Had the only thing that was renamed for President Kennedy been the space center, there would have been little or no controversy. But not only the facilty's name was changed, but the place itself was re-named, which did not go over well with a lot of long time residents who felt that a name that had been around for over 300 years shouldn't be changed. So eventually, they pushed to get the name of the place back to Cape Canaveral, while the Space Center continues to be named for JFK. Even Jackie acknowledged that was the right result.

[RagAss]

8. True. Most folks don't know that St. Augustine...up North a bit from there...

was an founded by the Spanish in 1565, 55 years before Plymouth in 1620.

[Cyrano]

12. I personnally believe we should change the name Texas back to tejas and

hand it over to the local Indians who were the original owners for countless centuries.

[timo]

28. how?

you'd be pretty hardpressed to find a karankawa to give back the gulf coast region to

[DarbyUSMC]

26. Thanks for pointing that out. I lived in that area before the change and concur

that it was right to change it back, leaving the space center with Kennedy's name. Oft' times decisions are made in haste with good intentions. I'm from the home town of Francis Bellamy, the author of the Pledge. When they added "under God" to his little Pledge of Allegiance, the folks in our town weren't overjoyed.

http://mockingbirdhill.homestead.com/myhometown.html

[southernyankeebelle]

10. That would be good than we can all throw tomatoes at it.

[Tsar_Bomba]

15. Florida's turnpike is still called the Ronald Reagan turnpike

with plenty of signs paid for by tax dollars to remind me. Unfortunately for me the Florida legislature is full of repukes.

[Captain Hilts]

20. Let's not forget 'National Airport'. nt

[jberryhill]

16. Thank You. I Always Wondered Why/When It Changed Back /nt

[Stevenmarc]

21. Next time they'll just sell the name, see you at Cape Staples

[OllieLotte]

27. Ha...good one. n/t