Word: knighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Blue Knight, Wambaugh...
...Jack Anderson seems to think he is a white knight. With his admitted methods of investigation, he is more like a pot calling the kettle black...
...WHITE KNIGHT: THE RISE OF SPIRO AGNEW...
Thereafter, writes Witcover, it was Nelson Rockefeller who helped turn Agnew, the "White Knight" of civil rights, into Agnew the conservative. In 1968 Agnew backed Rockefeller early and aggressively for the Republican presidential nomination. When Rockefeller publicly withdrew without privately notifying Agnew, he humiliated a proud man, Witcover reasons, and drove him into the arms of Richard Nixon. Agnew's only previous contact had been a long unanswered letter. "That damn Nixon!" he exploded to a friend. "He won't even answer your letters." But when the two sometime losers finally met, there was instant rapport...
...Blue Knight, Wambaugh...