{"id":311,"date":"2009-04-01T15:52:25","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T19:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/04\/01\/lbj-a-leader-to-love\/"},"modified":"2009-04-01T15:52:25","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T19:52:25","slug":"lbj-a-leader-to-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/04\/01\/lbj-a-leader-to-love\/","title":{"rendered":"LBJ: A Leader to Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LBJ <a href=\"http:\/\/100days.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/31\/can-obama-be-a-majority-of-one\/\">knew how<\/a> to win legislative battles:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Uncooperative legislators paid a price for their independence. When Senator Frank Church, an Idaho Democrat, justified a vote against a Johnson bill by saying that columnist Walter Lippmann shared his view, Johnson scolded him: \u201cFrank, next time you want a dam in Idaho, you call Walter Lippmann and let him put it through.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LBJ knew how to win legislative battles: Uncooperative legislators paid a price for their independence. When Senator Frank Church, an Idaho Democrat, justified a vote against a Johnson bill by saying that columnist Walter Lippmann shared his view, Johnson scolded him: \u201cFrank, next time you want a dam in Idaho, you call Walter Lippmann and&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/04\/01\/lbj-a-leader-to-love\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}