I feel Martin Luther King is a different case from the others, because clearly he actually went by all three names - no one's calling him Martin L King
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Maybe FDR too, I don't see people calling him "Franklin Roosevelt", the Delano actually gets included
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it never made sense to me how George Bush (2001-2008) could go by "W" to distinguish himself from his father who ... also had a W middle initial?
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or: refer to all American historical figures with middle name: Richard Milhouse Nixon Harold S Truman Abraham _ Lincoln
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(For people with common names who aren't famous enough to literally be in history books, middle initials are useful for disambiguating oneself from the other dozens of people with the same first/last names: in the age of search engines, it's all one global namespace.)
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This is just silly. FR, JK and MK are *meaningless*. Moreover, they were known as FDR, JFK and MLK in their own time, as was Robert E. Lee. Don't like it? Tough.
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A friend of mine is named Robert Lee, he doesn’t deserve the association
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Things really get fun if you include Harry S Truman, who had no middle name, just the initial
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Yeah, but if you miss out the E you don't get his name right: Robert Enormouslyracist Lee
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