President Obama is being advised to adopt as a model in his dealings with Congress during the budget crisis the tactics of Lyndon Baines Johnson. A former aide to LBJ, Joseph Califano Jr., has a dispatch in the New York Times this week suggesting that Mr. Obama base his strategy in dealing with Congress on Johnson’s maneuvering during the budget battles of 1967 and 1968, when LBJ “won” his contest with Congress by knowing the “pressure points” on the legislators and thus preserving the huge outlays on the Great Society program while keeping up the Vietnam War. The strategy was known as guns and butter. Mr. Califano suggests Mr. Obama hew to such a line even in the wake of rejection by a bipartisan majority in the House of a plan to raise the nation’s debt ceiling absent cuts in taxes and spending.