Journalist Robert Novak Dies After Battle With Cancer

[TheSarge]

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Journalist Robert Novak has died, FOX News confirms.

He was 78. He died in his home after a battle with brain cancer, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/18/journalist-robert-novak-dies-battle-cancer/

[Chris_]

Columnist Robert D. Novak dies after battle with cancer



Robert D. Novak, who began covering Washington during the Eisenhower administration and later achieved fame as a columnist and television commentator, died in his home Tuesday morning after a year-long battle with cancer. He was 78.

A nationally syndicated columnist for 45 years, Novak wrote “Inside Report”—a reported column on the inner workings of Washington policy and politics—with Rowland Evans six days a week from 1963 until Evans’ retirement in 1993. For 15 years, Novak continued the column—thrice weekly—until a brain tumor forced his retirement in July 2008.

Cable television made Novak’s a familiar face nationwide. An early star at the nascent CNN in 1980, Novak was a fixture on the right at CNN’s Crossfire, and he relished his work as the executive producer of the Capital Gang.

An outspoken conservative in later decades, Novak came to Washington as a moderate—he and Evans originally planned to take no sides in their column, except for support of civil rights. Novak progressively moved rightward, becoming a flag-bearer for the supply-side economics that drove Ronald Reagan’s 1981 tax cuts.

RIP sir.

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[TheSarge]

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[Chris_]

May he rest in peace the Conservative Movement will be minus one strong voice