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Why were US Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson commonly referred to as their initials "FDR", "JFK", and "LBJ" respectively? What caused an end to this trend?

by /u/Cariban in /r/AskHistorians

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