Word: counterblasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President. Some White House reporters thought that there was too little substance in the "terrifying" story -Nixon's "slapping" of a citizen at McCoy Air Force Base near Orlando, Fla. -to merit any attention at all. Yet publication of accounts by some papers, plus an angry White House counterblast that forced still more coverage, blew the incident into one of the strangest press stories of a strange year...