And, of course, Lyndon Baines Johnson was the inheriting president who had taken office at Kennedy's death.

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The first president to abuse the Trust funds to pay for the Vietnam war was Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ).

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Reagan's state funeral will be the first such ceremony since the service for President Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1973.

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When Lyndon Baines Johnson was the vice president under President John F.

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The medium has been similarly merciless in bringing us other modern presidents, such as Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Nixon, and George Bush, Sr.

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