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...correctly identify Negro violence and cries of "Black power" as potentially the most destructive phenomena on the civil rights scene. What must be added, however, is that, in the civil rights movement, as in other revolutionary movements, the narrower the gap between aspirations and reality becomes, the greater the frustration and anger over the remaining obstacles tend to be. We would be expecting something more than human from the Negro were we to demand that he stifle these emotions. The problem, rather, is to channel Negro anger and dissatisfaction into constructive avenues, such as selfhelp. That is what this commission...
While Johnson is accorded high marks for getting things done, he has not thereby endeared himself to his constituents. Each new public-opinion sampling brings evidence of an ever-widening "affection gap": last week the Minneapolis Tribune reported an eleven-month slippage from 72% to 48% in Minnesotans' approval of his performance. The credibility gap, fostered by the President's often devious ways, also keeps growing. An airline executive fresh from a visit to Lyndon's home state reported last week that "in Texas...
...Johnson suffers, too, from a kind of generational gap that yawns wider every time Bobby Kennedy addresses a crowd. It is not simply a matter of age. As a kind of latter-day Andrew Jackson in an era that looks for a more patrician patina on its politicians, he strikes many as plain corny or simply crude. Last week, for example, while en route to Manila, the wife of an allied Prime Minister had just confided to her seat mate that she preferred bacon even to caviar when the President leaned over, speared one of her two rashers and devoured...
...hazily divided electorate, New York's gubernatorial candidates turned last week to eye-gouging personal attacks. Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller started the year at an all-time popularity low that gave him scant hope of winning a third term. Throughout a hard, costly campaign, he has narrowed the gap and, toward campaign's end, was hammering at Democrat Frank O'Connor's "demagogy," lack of courage, foresight and "size.'" New York City Council President O'Connor, who is conspicuously short of personal dynamism, effective organization and cash, accused Rockefeller of a "shabby attempt...
...result of these contradictions has been the notorious "credibility gap." Yesterday's announcement from Manila that U.S. troops will not stay on indefinitely in South Vietnam cannot, by itself, be expected to close the gap. In fact, the declaration followed remarks by U.S. military spokesmen that the current troop build-up will continue unabated. And it means little to pledge withdrawal within six months of a unilateral decision that troops are no longer needed when the key point is uncertain: How far does the U.S. intend to press...