Ted Knap is an American journalist. Thaddeus L. Knap, is perhaps best known for having been included on Nixon?s enemies list despite his belief that ?I thought Nixon, except for Watergate, was a good president.? Knap was chief political writer and White House correspondent for Scripps Howard News Service. He covered five presidents, five presidential campaigns, and fourteen national political conventions. He went to Vietnam with Johnson, to Moscow with Nixon, to China with Ford, around the world with Carter, to Europe and the Vatican with Reagan and on July 24, 1969, witnessed from the deck of the U.S.S. Hornet the Pacific splashdown of the first astronauts to step on the moon. Also, he had breakfast with Princess Grace in Monaco, lunch with Shirley Temple Black in Washington, drinks with Shirley MacLaine in New Hampshire while covering the 1968 presidential primaries, chatted with Elizabeth Taylor backstage at a Gridiron Club dinner, spoke Polish with Pope John Paul II in the White House and interviewed Eleanore Roosevelt, Brooke Shields and former heavyweight boxing champions Jack Dempsey and Rocky Marciano. Before dawn on a cold Nov. 

May 19th, 1920 in   /  Died:   Feb 26th, 2023 - aged 102