USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The advent of the presence of television journalists allowed by the military to report and photograph events of the war within hours or days of their actual occurrence in an uncensored manner drove the discrepancy widely referred to as “the credibility gap".

Detailed explanation-2: -The U.S. had stationed advisory military personnel in South Vietnam since the 1950s, but Johnson presided over a major escalation of the U.S. role in the Vietnam War. After the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, he obtained congressional approval to use military force to repel future attacks by North Vietnam.

Detailed explanation-3: -A credibility gap is a difference in perception between the government and its people. It occurs when there is a disconnect between what is being told to the people and what they actually believe. It became part of American culture during the Vietnam War.

Detailed explanation-4: -Britannica Dictionary definition of CREDIBILITY GAP. [count] : a situation in which the things that someone says are not believed or trusted because of the difference between what is said and what seems to be true. There is a credibility gap between what the mayor says and what the people see happening in the city.