A Presidential Precedent in Hiawatha

The Washington Post carries newsof a new Maryland elementary school a few miles from the White House that's going to be named for President Obama. It would be the second school in country named after The One.

Obama is also not the first president to have a school named after him while he's still in office.  The Post notes that it actually happened once around these parts:

It isn't unprecedented to name a school after a sitting president. In 2003, George W. Bush Elementary School opened in Stockton, Calif., during Bush's first presidential term. In 1970, a new school in Hiawatha, Iowa, was named Richard M. Nixon Elementary. The school is still called Nixon Elementary 35 years after the 37th president resigned in the Watergate scandal.

I'm sure natives already knew that. It was news to me.