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No, President Lyndon B. Johnson was not the first president to borrow money from the Social Security Trust Fund. Presidents before him, including Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, had also borrowed from the trust fund to finance government expenditures. Borrowing from the Social Security Trust Fund has been a common practice by several presidents since its establishment in 1935.
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The Democratic Party under President Franklin D Roosevelt (for Social Security, 1935), and the same party under Lyndon Johnson for Medicare (1965).
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Johnson hoped to be remembered for his social programs, but he got bogged down in the Viet Nam War.
Lyndon Johnson is noted for his war on poverty . Some say that poverty won.
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Lyndon Johnson started Medicare and Medicaid to ensure that the elderly and the poor would have medical care.
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