 As an editorial journalist, Cronkite's powerful criticisms of the Vietnam War reportedly moved then-president Lyndon Johnson to say, "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Middle America."
<clarity>  As an editorial journalist, Cronkite's powerful criticisms of the Vietnam War reportedly moved then-president Lyndon Johnson to say, "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Middle America."
 As an editorial journalist, Cronkite's powerful criticisms of the reportedly moved then-president Lyndon Johnson to say, "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Middle America."