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Our current president is no "Junior"
 
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I noticed on your website (page URL given below) the perpetuation of a common error.  Our current president's name contains 'Junior' as no part of it, and should not, given that his name is *not* otherwise identical to that of his father.  Presumably, to easily distinguish between him and his father, our current president is referred to in this way, as 'Jr.' or 'II' ('the second').  The two, however, are easily distinguished without making the mistake of calling one 'Junior' or 'Senior' or adding the erroneous 'II' to one's name: Our current president is George Walker Bush, and the one directly preceding Clinton is George Herbert Walker Bush.  Since it is incorrect to refer to the former Reagan V.P. as 'George W. Bush', using this name is sufficient to identify our current president and to distinguish him from his father, George H. W. Bush.  Please correct this error on your website if you think it is part of your goal to promote the education, rather than misinformation, of visitors of your site.

Interestingly, G.W. Bush's former competitor, Albert Gore was never in the media referred to as 'Junior', despite that actually being part of his name, which was necessary to distinguish him from his father, also a politician, with an (otherwise) identical name.  If I may briefly editorialize, it is not difficult to see why in the 2000 race the pro-Gore media pushed on Bush the illegitimate label 'Junior' and hid the fact that 'Junior' is actually part of Gore's name.

http://www.dropbears.com/b/broughsbooks/history/us_presidents.htm

Chris Lubbers, Dec 2002



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