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When Did the CIA get renamed?

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A friend told me that the CIA was renamed years ago to The George Bush Center for Intelligence? Is this true? (No joke).
And if true why doesn't the media properly call it by this name?
 
Okay. So lets see. The CIA HQ is no longer the CIA Hq., it is the George Bush Center for Intelligence but the organization or agency inside the George Bush Center is still called the CIA....I think I got it. So whenever anyone refers to the CIA Hq or the main building of the CIA as CIA Hq they should be calling it the George Bush Center for Intelligence.

Thanks....
 
Not suggesting that but I have noticed that the press and others commonly refer to the Hoover Building when referring to FBI Hq. I just have never noticed anyone calling CIA Hq the Bush building. In fact I thought this was a joke at first, was told no, this is true and thanks for confirming it.

Anybody know if there other U.S. government buildings named after living persons?
 
Just kidding...

Actually, I would love to see FBI headquarters renamed for Marcus Garvey, and the Secret Service honor Bill Tilghman.
 
Dude, the CIA doesn't even refer to "HQ" as "the Bush Building"; they refer to it as "Langley".

Here in Cleveland, we refer to the A.J. Celebrezze Federal Office Building as "the federal building", not the Celebrezze building. And I suspect the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Office Building in Oklahoma City was referred to simply as "the federal building" as well. Boston's iteration is the John F. Kennedy Federal Office Building.
 
"...William Francis Deegan was born in what is now the Bronx in 1882. Educated as an architect at Cooper Union, he was commissioned as a captain in the Army Corps of Engineers, where he served under the command of General George Goethals, the builder of the Panama Canal. During World War I Deegan spent no time in the trenches; instead he oversaw the construction of army bases in and around New York, rising to the rank of major before war's end. After the war, he helped organize the returning veterans into the American Legion and in 1921 was named New York State Commander.

Deegan was a devoted Democrat, a political leader, and a personal friend of Mayor Jimmy Walker...
In 1928 Walker appointed him the Tenement House Commissioner, what would today be called the Buildings Commissioner.
In 1930 Deegan was given the chairmanship of the Mayor's Committee on Receptions to Distinguished Guests...
Deegan was also elected President of the Bronx Chamber of Commerce...
Then Bill had to go and ruin everything by dying during an operation for appendicitis in 1932. His many friends launched a campaign to have the approach road leading from the new Triborough Bridge to the Grand Concourse named in his honor. After World War II, when Robert Moses pushed the original highway north along the Harlem River and through Van Cortland Park to connect with the New York State Thruway and upstate New York, "Deegan Boulevard" became the Major Deegan Expressway..."

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mdeegan.html
 
I am sure there are lots of highways, buildings, parks, etc etc named after dead people. In this case we have a public law naming a U.S. government building after a living person who was one of its less distinguished directors for a relatively short period of time. Even the last George in charge of the CIA was a longer tenant than Bush if you will forgive the pun. So my question stands, does anyone know of any other U.S. government building named after a living person?

Thanks.
 
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