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br> Re: Sean Higgins' No Nonsense Novak : /p>

Sean Higgins piece on Bob Novak was well received here and in a lot of places where leftist/socialist/democrats DON'T congregate. I too have my copy of Prince of Darkness and it is a must have textbook on the realities of our political system for the last 50 years. Much could be said and, undoubtedly, will be said about Mr. Novak now that his column will be stilled.

In the summer of 1980 I found myself stationed in the Pentagon and, therefore, living in the D.C. area. Being a newspaper junky I, enjoyed my daily Washington Post despite its leftist bent. The Evans and Novak column helped cushion the propaganda and biased reporting one suffered in the Post's pages. For recent proof the daily trashing given Senator Allen in 2006 is all you need. But I digress. To know what was REALLY going on in politics Evans and Novak was it. A classic example of the inside nature of their column came as I reveled in what was D.C. after Jimmy was clobbered. Ripples went even to my little cubicle in the Pentagon. Having completed duty on Air Force budget panels before November, we reconvened after Reagan's election in light of expected repairs to the starvation budgets of four Carter years.

The Evans and Novak columns after that election dispelled much of my euphoria as they wrote a series of columns exposing the hosing Reagan loyalists were taking in the personnel process that was to fill the key posts in the administration. I found one of those columns recently. It seems that the country club Repubs had lost to Reagan but the great communicator was lax in sticky political details. The Bushies were not. A lot of the gory details would have been buried but for Novak's digging. Imagine, if one were to wish to write a detailed tome on REAL POLITICS, over the years, an encyclopedia with Evans and Novak and later Novak articles, in chronological order, would be all one needed.

p>Much has been said and written about Bob's article about the blond CIA bimbo and her airhead husband. The furor created by this piece was b.s. manufactured by a leftist press aided and abetted by the typically vicious Democrat pols. Conservatives can remember Bob's writings fondly, for many reasons. One I will select is his forward to a recent reprint of a masterpiece of Conservative literature -- Whittaker Chambers's Witness . br> -- MJ Turkelson br> Lebanon, Ohio /p> p>

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