I just heard today that Congress is considering naming it Trump airport. Because, of course Congress has nothing better to do than pander to the most noxious pimple on the butt of humanity.

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Anonymous wrote:He did some good stuff but he also helped overthrow democracies in Iran and Guatemala— we are still dealing with the blowback from both of those decisions.

The US should overthrow the Iranian government again.

stop, I can only get so erect

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Anonymous wrote:Stop naming things after people.

x1000000 So Southern.

Soo... LaGuardia, JFK, O'Hare, Logan, McCarran (LV), Ted Stevens (Anchorage), Norman Y. Mineta (San Jose), Bradley (Conn.), Eppley (Omaha), Hopkins (Cleveland), Gen. Mitchell (Milwaukee), etc. So "southern"!

Love the people movers, hate the tunnels.

Anonymous wrote:Stop naming things after people.

x1000000 So Southern.

Anonymous wrote:I still have no idea who O'Hare is? Anyone?

He was the Navy's first fighter ace of WW2 and a Medal of Honor recipient: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_O%27Hare

Kinda shameful that I've flown through there dozens of times over the past three decades and only just found that out.

Anonymous wrote:Enough with changing names. Nobody cares--and most have no clue why it is "Dulles."

It takes a LOT of taxpayer money to rename places and the money could be better spent on upgrading the place.

Just rename it after his bother. No need to change any signage.

Anonymous wrote:He did some good stuff but he also helped overthrow democracies in Iran and Guatemala— we are still dealing with the blowback from both of those decisions.

The US should overthrow the Iranian government again.

Anonymous wrote:Why do we keep on doing this. Are we going to change the name of Fairfax County because it is named after a guy that owned slaves 400 years ago? What about Washington DC because it is named after George Washington (also owned slaves)? Should we rename the Ronald Reagan Airport because his campaign produced a somewhat racist ad about welfare recipients while running for reelection. I don't see where this will stop and it seems like a distraction from things that can have a meaningful impact on society.

And while they're at it, the District of Columbia could remove the name of that scoundrel, crook and racist Marion Barry from at least two municipal buildings, not to mention the statue they installed outside the District Building. Barry said some rather vile, racist things, particularly about Asians.

Anonymous wrote:I still have no idea who O'Hare is? Anyone?

And who was Father Hurley (Blvd)?

[quote=Anonymous]John Foster Dulles isn't my cup of tea, nor is his brother, but what do you expect when we went ahead and renamed National "Reagan National"?

If I had to pick a bone, I'd go after DCA's "proper" name first.

At least Dulles's work was largely in the context of Eisenhower, who actually warned us about the military-industrial complex. Not that he should get credit for that or it should have anything to do with airport names.

I'd love to keep it to local geographical names (which, of course, include references to people in history but are more broadly accepted for practical reasons), and maybe diminutive local honorifics that could more easily change.