Considering he left the Navy in 1953, I find it easy to believe.
I wouldn't be shocked if W had written some excel macros, though. Even less so if Romney had.
Might be close, 1953 was the year of his discharge, so he might not have written anything.
Jimmy Carter aside, what kind of code do navy people write?
During Carter's era or today. In 90 I was trained for a year in computer engineering for our sonar computer mainframe including Assembly. The idea was that if we were on deployment and a bug caused a problem we could potentially figure it out and maybe fix it without stopping the mission. I was programming on my own for 8 years prior to that as a hobby so was actually correcting the instructor on a couple of occasions. There is also the rate DT which does programming all the time I think. I wanted to get into that rate but the wait was a year and I was impatient.