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Perhaps not. One reason for the affection gap is that in a predominantly urban nation, Johnson palpably does not enjoy cities and has little empathy with the majority of Americans living in them. Also, as shown by the graceless handling of Historian Eric Goldman's resignation as a special presidential consultant this month, Johnson has little or no rapport with the intellectual community. The President's strained relations with Big Labor's top brass were all too evident at his pilgrimage to Detroit on Labor Day -though there was no lack of rank-and-file palms admiringly...
...precisely this kind of petty deception and, on occasion, even the outright denial of the obvious, that has given rise to what the Washington press corps calls the President's "credibility gap." During the airline strike, for example, Johnson blandly assured the nation that Administration-backed settlement terms were within the Government's wage-price guidelines, when in fact they grossly exceeded them. A few days before L.BJ. announced his proposals to combat inflation and tight money, he stoutly denied that he was planning any such action-though his economic advisers had been working for days to formulate...
...plug the teaching gap, Detroit has sent assistant principals and guidance counselors into 102 of its classrooms...
...federal programs can be largely blamed for this year's troubles, long-range pressures are also squeezing the teaching profession. College graduates who choose teaching are turning in increasing numbers to jobs with the greatest prestige, those in colleges and high schools, leaving a growing grammar school gap. High school teachers tend to move up to junior colleges, which employ more than 65,000 as compared with 26,000 five years ago. Contending that elementary teachers have a far more profound influence on students than college teachers, James E. Russell, secretary of the N.E.A.'s Educational Policies Commission...
...thing, Douglas Jay, president of Britain's Board of Trade, reported that the nation's trade gap-the difference between high imports and low exports-was down from $295 million in July to $193 million in August, for the best showing since February. Part of the improvement could be attributed to the resumed shipment of exports after Britain's 45-day seamen's strike. But Jay, a 59-year-old economist, thought there was more to the story than that. He felt that the drastic measures recently imposed by Prime Minister Harold Wilson to hold down...