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President Lyndon B. Johnson

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Lyndon B. Johnson


  • First president born in Missouri.
  • First president to be assigned a Secret Service codename.
  • First president to visit Germany while in office.
  • First president to serve in World War I.
  • First president to have a nationally televised inauguration.
  • First president to leave office on January 20 (after the passage of the Twentieth Amendment).
  • First president and person to be issued a Medicare card.
  • First president to have his Farewell Address broadcast from the Oval Office
  • First president to authorize the use of nuclear weapons against a foreign nation.
  • First president to meet a Swedish Prime Minister (he met Tage Erlander in 1952)