Robert Novak

Robert David Novak (born February 26, 1931) is a U.S conservative columnist ("Inside Report", since 1963; until 1993 co-written with Rowland Evans) who is also well known as a television personality, appearing on programs like CNN's Capital Gang or Crossfire or NBC's Meet the Press.

He attended the University of Illinois from 1948 to 1952 and earned a bachelors of arts degree. He wrote for the Joliet Herald-News and The Champaign-Urbana Courier while in college. After serving in the Korean War as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army, he joined the Associated Press and covered politics in Indianapolis. In 1957, he covered Congress for the AP in Washington, D.C until he joined the D.C. bureau of The Wall Street Journal in 1958 to cover the Senate, eventually becoming the chief congressional correspondent in 1961.

In 1966, he teamed up with Rowland Evans to create the Evans-Novak Political Report, until Evans' death in 2001.

In 2003, he disclosed the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame in his newspaper column after receiving a leak from a senior member of the Bush administration.

Books

• Agony of the GOP, 1964
• Lyndon B. Johnson: The Exercise of Power
• Nixon in the White House: The Frustration of Power
• The Reagan Revolution

External links

• Novak's column in the Chicago Sun Times