Título: Robert Novak
Seção: Political views
Background: Robert David Sanders "Bob" Novak (February 26, 1931 - August 18, 2009) was an American syndicated columnist, journalist, television personality, author, and conservative political commentator. After working for two newspapers before serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, he became a reporter for the Associated Press and then for The Wall Street Journal. He teamed up with Rowland Evans in 1963 to start Inside Report, which became the longest running syndicated political column in U.S. history and ran in hundreds of papers. They also started the Evans-Novak Political Report, a notable biweekly newsletter, in 1967.

Conteúdo: Novak was registered Democratic, despite his conservative political views. He held more centrist views in his early career, and he supported the Democratic presidential candidacies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, of whom he was a friend. In later years, he said that he maintained his registered Democratic status so he could vote in District of Columbia Democratic primaries where victory would be tantamount to election. He was also close friends with Everett Dirksen. Novak later stated that reading Whittaker Chambers' book Witness changed his views from moderate-to-liberal to a strident anticommunism. Reading Chambers' message as a U.S. Army lieutenant in the Korean War gave him a feeling of moral absolutism in his cause. Novak's views turned further rightward through the 1970s, but Novak remained strongly critical toward Ronald Reagan and his supply side economics in the early 1980s. Novak changed his mind after debating economics with Reagan face to face, and he later wrote that Reagan was one of the very few politicians that he ever respected.  Novak strongly supported wars in Korea, Vietnam, and Grenada, but he took an anti-interventionist stance after that. He was a hard-line social conservative as well, holding pro-life and anti-divorce views. He also generally tended toward low-tax, small-government libertarian views, but his disagreements with mainstream Republicans and neoconservatives--specifically his opposition to the Iraq War--earned him the label of bei

user: Does Robert Novak lean more left or right politically?

assistant: Novak was registered Democratic, despite his conservative political views.

user: Did Robert Novak have an opinion on the Iraqi war?

assistant: specifically his opposition to the Iraq War--earned him the label of being a "paleoconservative."

user: Did Robert Novak express his views through print or television?

assistant: Novak's political column once stated that he considered every single president in his lifetime to be a failure, with the lone exception of Reagan.

user: Did Robert Novak have well known opinions about health care?

assistant: CANNOTANSWER

user: What was his most controversial political view?

assistant: Novak's political column once stated that he considered every single president in his lifetime to be a failure, with the lone exception of Reagan.

user: Why did he not consider Reagan to be a failure?

assistant: Novak changed his mind after debating economics with Reagan face to face, and he later wrote that Reagan was one of the very few politicians that he ever respected.