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Old Aug 7, 2007 | 1:09 pm
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Originally Posted by BLI-Flyer
Perhaps he called it Boulder Dam for the same reason many of us still call it National Airport.
Yup, it was renamed by a Republican Congress (1947) to honor a Republican President.
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