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President Lyndon B. Johnson

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John F. Kennedy


His first include:

  • First president who was Catholic.
  • First president born in the 20th century.
  • First president to have been a Boy Scout.
  • First president of entirely Irish descent.
  • First president who had no ancestry from the American colonial period.
  • First president to have previously served in the United States Navy.
  • First president to receive the Purple Heart, awarded in 1943 after he was wounded in action aboard PT-109.
  • First president (along with future president Richard Nixon) to participate in the first televised presidential debates.
  • First president to win in a case of dueling electors without counsel.
  • First president to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
  • First president to have an inaugural poet; Robert Frost.
  • First president to use the Situation Room.
  • First president to visit Austria, Costa Rica, Venezuela and Ireland while in office.
  • First president to be survived by both his parents.
  • First president to have both parents alive for his entire presidency.
  • First president to be survived by a grandparent.
  • First president to have a grandparent alive for his presidency.
  • First president to receive the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, awarded for his heroism as commanding officer of the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 when the ship was rammed and sunk by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri in 1943.
  • First president to ceremoniously grant a non-U.S. citizen honorary citizenship.
  • First president to have an airport named after him