photos of this guy, the altair voyager. it s a chevron oil tanker that used to be very famous. until the george w. bush administration took office in 2001, the altair voyager was caed the condoleezza rice. dr. rice was a long time board member of chevron when george w. bush hired her to be the national security adviser. she had a tanker named after her. yeah, the former oil executive president picked the ceo of halliburton to be vice president and the board member of a chevron who had a tanker named after her to be national security advicer. it was a different time. pity poor chevron because when the bush administration took office, chevron faced the prospect of having one of its oil tankers floating around the middle east or off the coast of nigeria or something with the american national security adviser s name painted in big letters on the side of their
traffic. because marinetraffic.com exists and i m obsessed with it, i find it very easy to get full details and lots and lots of lovely photos of this guy, the altair voy j voyager. it s a chevron tanker that used to be famous. until the george w. bush administration took office in 2001, the altair voyager was called the condoleezza rice. she was a long time board member of chevron when george bush hired her to be the national security adviser. she had a tanker named after her. yeah, the former oil executive president picked the ceo of halliburton to be president and the board member of chevron to be national security adviser. it was a different time. pity poor chevron because when the bush administration took office, chevron faced the
prospect of having one of its oil tankers floating around the middle east or off the coast of nigeria or something with the american national security adviser s name painted in big letters on the side of their tanker. that s awkward. that was awkward even before iraq. so chevron decided in 2001 they would change the name of the condoleezza rice. it would no longer being the condoleezza rice, it would instead being the altair voyager, which is the name of a star, a noncontroversial star. now the woman who once had her name poiainted or so it would sp as a floating symbol of the bush campaign is now for a man who hopes that name stands for something else. melissa harris perry joins us next.
tanker. that s awkward. that was awkward even before iraq. so chevron decided in 2001 they would change the name of the condoleezza rice. it would no longer be the condoleezza rice, it would instead being the altair voyager, which is the name of a star, a noncontroversial star. now the woman who once had her name painted or so it would stop so it with stop be a floating symbol of the bush campaign is now for a man who hopes that name stands for something else. melissa harris perry joins us next.