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Fire Breaks Out at Eisenhower Executive Office Building
   posted 4:48 pm Wed December 19, 2007 - Washington
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Emily Wilson
It is the Old Executive Office Building to the majority of us who were raised here and will remain that way just as Ronald Reagan Airport is still Washington National Airport. What difference does it make - probably none to the rest of the America. This business of changing names to fit a person is crazy. Build a new building and name it after them if it's that important. I liked Eisenhower and Reagan but that's not the point. It cost too much to rename things and causes more problems than it's worth. Why get so upset when someone calls it by its original name? I'm sure Eisenhower and Reagan could care less now! The families have the satisfaction of knowing who they were and the place they serve in history without naming a building after them. Also, if it mattered, I would say Woodrow Wilson is turning overn in his grave over a bridge that has bombed out and took so many years to figure out it needed to be rebuilt. By the time it is rebuilt, we will still need another way of getting from Virginia to Maryland because the traffic is always growing; especially with the new complex of hotels in Maryland, just the other side of the bridge. Hey, that's an idea: name the NEW bridge (when it is built--if ever) after someone famous and important to history. Like maybe, the "Bush Bridge". I think you are a great President, Mr. Bush and Laura is a wonderful wife and First Lady, and we pray for you daily. Praise God no one was injured bad and the Fire Department did a great job of getting it out before it was destroyed as old as it is. Thank you to all those who worked to put it out and helped to save lives.


SpareMe
I hope all got out ok. I have former disable clients that work in that building. So glad I am out of that field. I would probaly be working my tail off right now.


Jim O'Connell
Please call the building in the breaking news story by its proper name, "The Eisenhower Executive Office Building." President Clinton in 1999 signed into law legislation offically channging the name from the "Old Executive Office Building" to the "Eisenhower Executive Office Building." CNN has it correct on its website. Thank you, Jim O'Connell


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