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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCheck out We the People Website - change the name of the Reagan National Airport
to the Tim Howard National Airport.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/change-name-washington-national-airport-dca-tim-howard-national-airport/jrYbykxD
http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-wc-petition-howard-airport-20140701-story.html
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Tim Howard may very well be the most popular man in America at this moment. So much so, an official White House petition was started Tuesday night to rename the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport after Howard -- seriously.
Although the U.S. mens national soccer team was defeated by Belgium 2- 1 in the knockout round Tuesday afternoon, goalie Tim Howard emerged a national icon for his amazing work between the posts.
Fans created a petition on the White House website asking that Reagan Airport be renamed after Howard.
We politely request that we rename the airport to recognize his accomplishments, and meritorious service to the United States of America, the petition states.
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IF meritorious service was required how did Reagan make it?
liberal N proud
(60,344 posts)The Reagan name change was pure bullshit pushed through by the neocons almost while he was still in office.
Carolina
(6,960 posts)Totally agree. Lived in DC for 40 years and will never call it anything else. When ticket agents and others say Reagan, I politely say DCA or Washington National.
phylny
(8,386 posts)deutsey
(20,166 posts)Especially after he busted the air traffic controllers' strike.
I always call it Washington National.
I remember watching an interview with one of the Reaganite zealots pushing to rename the airport. One of the reasons he gave for naming it after his grand mufti was that the US capitol's airport should be named after a president.
When the interviewer said: "It already is. George Washington was our first president," the zealot just sat there with a deer-in-the-headlights look on his face.
Carolina
(6,960 posts)They are such dumbasses