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Oddly enough he is not the only person who has done this.
https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2016/12/06/how-the-sr-71-got-its-name/
It should be noted in both cases, it wasn't the leader who demanded a change, but the subordinate who did it to save face on their behalf.
I guess noses can be the same shade of brown, regardless of nationality.
"It's a bit nutty."
A comment on that article says it's more complicated than that. The Air Force Chief of Staff preferred SR over RS and got the speech changed before the president gave it.
That's arse