Rowland Evans

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Rowland Evans
Born
Rowland Evans Jr.

(1921-04-28)April 28, 1921
Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedMarch 23, 2001(2001-03-23) (aged 79)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Alma materYale University
OccupationJournalist
SpouseKatherine "Kay" Winton Evans

Rowland Evans Jr. (April 28, 1921 – March 23, 2001) 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.[1]

Life and career

Early life

Evans greeting President Gerald Ford in 1975

Born in

New York Herald-Tribune
and working his way up to becoming the paper's Congressional correspondent. He became a Washington journalist in 1945.

1945–1979

It was in that role that he met his lifelong writing partner,

polemics, even though the team's conservative
inclination gradually became evident.

1980–1990

By 1980, Evans & Novak were among the most widely syndicated columns in the United States as well as frequent guests on news-oriented radio and television talk programs. The team was among the first to join the fledgling

Harper's, The Saturday Evening Post, The New Republic, The Atlantic, and others, not to mention joining his partner as a Reader's Digest
contributing editor.

The team also co-wrote several books, including Lyndon B. Johnson: The Exercise of Power (1966); Nixon in the White House: The Frustration of Power (1971); and The Reagan Revolution (1981). They were featured prominently in The Boys on the Bus, Timothy Crouse's memorable best-seller about the workings of the Washington press corps during the 1972 presidential campaigns.

Despite his strong conservative stances, Evans was a close friend of President John F. Kennedy. Novak reported that Kennedy had his first dinner as president-elect with Evans.

1990–2001

Evans retired from the Evans & Novak syndicated column in 1993,[2] but he remained Novak's partner on television and in publishing a bi-weekly newsletter, The Evans & Novak Political Report. He was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in 2000 and died in a Washington, D.C. hospital a month before his 80th birthday.[4]

References

  1. ^ Novak, Robert (April 2, 2001). Rowland Evans (1921-2001). Human Events
  2. ^ a b "Novak Announces Retirement". The New York Times. August 4, 2008. He had written his column since 1963, first with Rowland Evans, who retired in 1993 and died in 2001
  3. ^ "A Gains-Tax Compromise Is Resisted". The New York Times. July 31, 1989. CNN's 'Evans and Novack' interview program
  4. New York Times

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