The Obama White House erroneously claimed that the president’s Tuesday trip to Puerto Rico was the first “official” presidential visit there since John F. Kennedy’s trip in 1961.

Richard Grenell, former spokesman for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, noted that two other presidents visited Puerto Rico since JFK, Lyndon Johnson in 1968 and Gerald Ford in 1976.

“When the White House released the erroneous fact that president Obama would be the first president since John F. Kennedy to visit Puerto Rico, CNN, NPR and others accepted it as fact and began reporting it,” Grenell writes on his personal blog and on the Huffington Post website.

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