Robert Novak
Overview
Columnist
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, journalist
Journalist
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, television personality, author
Author
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, and conservative political commentator. After working for two newspapers before serving for the U.S. Army in the Korean War
Korean War
The Korean War was a conventional war between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China , with military material aid from the Soviet Union...
, he became a reporter for the Associated Press
Associated Press
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and then for The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
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. He teamed up with Rowland Evans
Rowland Evans
Rowland Evans, Jr. was an American journalist. He was known best for his decades-long syndicated column and television partnership with Robert Novak, a partnership that endured, if only by way of a joint subscription newsletter, until Evans's death.Born in Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania, Evans...
in 1963 to start Inside Report, which became the longest running syndicated political column in U.S.
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