Robert Novak Dies

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.

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Novak married Geraldine Williams, a secretary for then-Vice President Lyndon Johnson in 1962, and Johnson hosted the wedding reception. The two had two children and eight grand-children.

Rest In Peace, Robert.