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From what I read, Ed Rollins claimed that Perot advisors mentioned Smith as a possible Vice Presidential candidate. I guess having a deceased man as Vice President wouldn't be all that bad. --RobbieFal 14:51, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

William French Smith's surname

While I read of the Attorney General's activities during the Reagan administration, I often saw him referred to as "Smith" or "General Smith", as you'd expect of a man with the middle name French and the surname Smith.

But then during the first Bush administration, I started seeing the former AG referred to in some publications, notably Newsweek, as "French Smith", as though his surname was in fact a binomial, with the odd configuration of capitalizing both and separating the two elements with a single space. Of course, this Wikipedia entry treats him as having solely "Smith" as his surname, but couldn't that be an error, given the highly unusual configuration of his name if, indeed, he truly was a son named William of the French Smith clan? Can anyone confirm this one way or the other? Thanks in advance! [signed] FLORIDA BRYAN

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 From what I read, Ed Rollins claimed that Perot advisors mentioned Smith as a possible Vice Presidential candidate. I guess having a deceased man as Vice President wouldn't be all that bad. --[[User:RobbieFal|RobbieFal]] 14:51, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
+== William French Smith's surname ==
+While I read of the Attorney General's activities during the Reagan administration, I often saw him referred to as "Smith" or "General Smith", as you'd expect of a man with the middle name French and the surname Smith.
+But then during the first Bush administration, I started seeing the former AG referred to in some publications, notably ''Newsweek'', as "French Smith", as though his surname was in fact a binomial, with the odd configuration of capitalizing both and separating the two elements with a single space.  Of course, this Wikipedia entry treats him as having solely "Smith" as his surname, but couldn't that be an error, given the highly unusual configuration of his name if, indeed, he truly was a son named William of the French Smith clan?  Can anyone confirm this one way or the other?  Thanks in advance!  [signed] FLORIDA BRYAN