>>63881290
I think it began with USS JFK, and got out of hand with USS Nimitz

JFK is because he was assassinated, but also because he founded the modern US military. everything you know about the US style of combat i.e. massive naval power, carriers, special forces, basically came from him.

so I suppose it was a popular move, and the navy thought, alright, we'll do Nimitz and Eisenhower next, for obvious reasons. but these are just the fighting leaders. JFK built the navy fo the Cold War, but who built the navy of WW2? Vinson. without him, the US wouldn't have had a navy to fight the Japs with.

then, continuing the WW2 theme, you have to have FDR, and then because they arguably made AMERICA and you can't have a bunch of politicians and not have them, it's obvious: the two most popular Founding Fathers.

then you have Stennis and things truly go off the rails. I don't know him.
I think up to this point it's all fairly reasonable.