Restoring historic names to US carriers

What could cause CVN-77 to be named Lexington, with later carriers receiving historic carrier names and presidential names going to destroyers?

The panel suggests that objections to honouring politicians on the largest warships, or controversy over a particular namesake, could trigger the change; an earlier break around CVN-74 is proposed.

The proposed change starts with Lexington and redirects presidential names to destroyers. The panel criticises naming the largest warships for politicians and considers controversy over a namesake a possible reason for changing the practice. An earlier break around CVN-74 is proposed as a way to group preceding presidential names as commemorations of wartime leaders, while acknowledging Carl Vinson as an exception. The comparison then turns to British practice. The Town-class destroyer's name is attributed to a town, while the submarine Churchill is identified as a posthumous commemoration of Winston Churchill. Constitutional monarchs and politicians are treated as different categories of namesake.