Buffett Wager Enabled by Nixon Winds Down With Swap:

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Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Warren Buffett announced a stock swap today in which he will exit most of his four-decade investment in the firm that owned the Washington Post newspaper.

Below is a timeline of Buffett’s involvement with Washington Post Co., which sold the newspaper last year to Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos and was renamed Graham Holdings Inc.