Antedating of "Credibility Gap"

[Fred Shapiro]

credibility gap (OED 1966)

1965 _Christian Science Monitor_ 29 Dec. 3  Recent months have also
produced a "credibility gap."  Many feel the administration has
occasionally employed a technique of deliberate confusion.

Fred Shapiro


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