| |
| | Bradenton Herald | 10/08/2006 | Presidential family christens George H.W. Bush carrier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | The bottle strike sent fizz onto the carrier's hull, followed by smiles, hugs and handshakes between Koch Bush, her father, brother, and shipyard president Mike Petters. |
 | | George Herbert Walker Bush, the Navy's youngest commissioned pilot during World War II and president from 1989 to 1993, became the first living president to attend the christening of a carrier named after him. |
 | | President George W. Bush, who gave the keynote address and introduced his father, raved about the vessel: "She is unrelenting, she unshakeable, she is unyielding, she is unstoppable. |
| www.bradenton.com /mld/bradenton/news/local/15705758.htm (399 words) |
|