Sad News to Report
Robert Novak has announced his immediate retirement following the diagnosis of a brain tumor, a prognosis the Sun-Times’ political columnist describes as “dire.”
“The details are being worked out with the doctors this week, but the tentative plan is for radiation and chemotherapy,” Novak said.
Robert Novak at a party marking the 40th anniversary of his newspaper column at the Army Navy Club in Washington, D.C., June 2003.
The Evans-Novak column was first distributed by Publishers Newspaper Syndicate on May 15, 1963, with the New York Herald-Tribune, the flagship newspaper. When the Herald-Tribune folded in 1966, the Chicago Sun-Times became their home newspaper.
Sad news indeed, Robert Novak is stalwart Conservative and just a damn great writer.
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