| 26 Feb 1931 |
Robert Novak born, Joliet IL. |
| 1952 |
B.A., University of Illinois. |
| 1952 |
As lieutenant, served U.S. Army, Korean War until 1954. |
| 15 May 1963 |
Robert Novak and Rowland Evans join together, for political column Inside Report. |
| 1978 |
Interviews Deng Xiaoping in China. |
| 15 May 1993 |
Rowland Evans retires from co-writing column Inside Report, leaving it to Novak. |
| 8 Jul 2003 |
During a conversation struck up by a perfect stranger about Ambassador Joseph Wilson on a Washington, D.C. sidewalk, Robert Novak opines: "Wilson's an asshole. The CIA sent him. His wife, Valerie, works for the CIA. She's a weapons of mass destruction specialist. She sent him." Unfortunately for Novak, the stranger turns out to be a good friend of Joseph Wilson, who quickly receives word of the exchange. |
| 14 Jul 2003 |
Blows the CIA cover of Ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife (who is an operative), as part of a retaliation for his report that concluded there was no attempt by Iraq to purchase yellowcake uranium ore from Niger. |
| 7 Oct 2003 |
President George W Bush, regarding the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity to Robert Novak: "I don't know if we're going to find out the senior administration official. I don't have any idea." |
| 9 Oct 2003 |
G. Gordon Liddy on President George W Bush's attitude toward the Valerie Plame scandal: "I don't think he wants to find out who did the leaking." |
| 25 Mar 2004 |
On CNN's Crossfire, Robert Novak provokes Congressman Rahm Emanuel:
| NOVAK: |
Congressman, do you believe—you're a sophisticated guy—do you believe, watching these hearings, that Dick Clarke has a problem with this African-American woman Condoleezza Rice? |
| EMANUEL: |
Say that again? |
| NOVAK: |
Do you believe that Dick Clarke has a problem with this African-American woman Condoleezza Rice? |
| EMANUEL: |
No, no. Bob, give me a break. No. No. |
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| 3 Jun 2004 |
Regarding the Valerie Plame leak, President Bush declares: "I've told our administration that we'll fully cooperate with their investigation. I want to know the truth, and I'm willing to cooperate myself." |
| 13 Dec 2005 |
Addressing the John Locke Foundation during a luncheon in Raleigh, North Carolina, journalist Robert Novak opines: "I'm confident the President knows who the source is. [...] I'd be amazed if he doesn't. [...] So I say: Don't bug me. Don't bug Bob Woodward. Bug the President as to whether he should reveal who the source is." |