As we wage the war against poverty for the next generation, let’s fight smarter.

Kennedy a copy. The president charged Heller with launching a legislative assault on poverty. After Kennedy’s assassination, Lyndon B. Johnson took up that charge, waging a war on poverty.

"There are many good anti-poverty programs today," Keyserling said, but they are moving too slowly, or in the wrong direction. A war against poverty must be a total national commitment, he said.

President Johnson took on the economy by waging a "war on poverty." "His vision was of helping the disadvantaged to help themselves," Robert Dallek says.