And if Truman were around today, I’ll bet a lot of people would call him “S” just for giggles.
I never said Ben Franklin was president, just like I never said that Joseph Kennedy (JFK’s father) was president. I said “there was a previous person with the same last name who was already famous in American politics.”
doh! :smack:
For some reason, “BO” doesn’t seem quite so euphonious.
So, judging by current headline trends, what you’re saying is that if Clinton becomes president, she will become known as Local Mom In Your Area.
Tell that to his dog.
Just you wait until Bernie is inaugurated! (Hint: It appears, from the Wiki page, that the doesn’t even have a middle name at all.)
BHO tends to be used frequently by people who dislike the present officeholder, which I suspect is an artifact of the same people’s habit of including his middle name in all mentions.
I’m skeptical—a search for “RMN” in the Google Newspapers archive doesn’t turn up any references to Nixon.
I saw “RMN” quite often in newspapers when he was PotUS. But that was the last one to be so abbreviated.
I’ve been dealing with browser helper objects long before the Obama presidency. Rogue ones are used by malware.
Interesting. I never saw it, and in fact remember one of theChicago papers running a reader question about why they never called him RMN. The response pointed out that “Nixon,” though two letters longer, actually took up only slightly more headline space–capital M counted for one and a half, if I’m remembering right, whereas lower case “i” counted for just a half. The space saved wasn’t enough to justify using less familiar initials than the more recognizable name.
Emphasis mine.
No matter how many times i count, Clinton has seven letters in it.
Hey, at least those people acknowledge that his last name is Obama!
Not in typesetting. The lower-case I and I are as thin as letters get – both together take up less space than an m – and the lower-case t is also a small space letter.
Would George Washington count?
I’m not talking about how people referred to him during his lifetime but in the metro DC area, George Washington University and the George Washington Parkway are often referred to as GW and the GW Parkway respectively.
Back in the day, I remember “RN” being a more common acronym than “RMN” in referring to him. It’s how he initialed White House memos, for instance, and even titled one of his books: http://www.amazon.com/RN-Memoirs-Richard-Nixon-ebook/dp/B00AHE24I0/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1459952523&sr=1-2&keywords=nixon+rn
When I think “DDE,” I think of this: Escort destroyer - Wikipedia. But Y(nautical)MMV.