Robert Novak succumbs to brain cancer

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CPAC 2008, Washington DC

This pic of me and Robert Novak was taken 16 months ago, at the Omni Shoreham in Washington. It was a cocktail before dinner, and Bob had been knocking back straight scotch, just like all the good newsmen of his generation.

I turned to my then-husband and said “That man is the undead.” Months later that was confirmed, when Novak was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer.

Robert Novak, Prince of Darkness and old-school journalist, died today at the age of 78.

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