From: Alex Chaffee Subject: Air Force One Date: Monday, Feb 2, 1998, 9:36 AM Just heard a blurb on NPR about the controversy over renaming National Airport to Ronald Reagan Airport. Reportedly, nobody feels too strongly about it either way, except for the air traffic controllers' union members, who haven't forgotten that RR fired all the controllers and brought in scabs in 1981. One crusty fellow put it this way (these are his exact words): "And for us to have to utter his name every time we announce the airport, would be to pull out our heart and rub a block of salt around in there." - A ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Nick Chaffee" To: "Alex Chaffee" Subject: Ronald who? Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 11:10:01 -0500 Hey, why don't they call it the Ricky Ricardo Airport Nacional--then someone would say "And for us to have to utter his name every time we announce the airport, would be to pull out our heart and rub a margarita with salt around in there." (plus returning planes could be "Lucies" or something and they would have an excuse to play Latin musak all the time) - N