Word: rowland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other cards, Carter got less charity. Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, no fans of the President, rushed to judgment: "Jimmy Carter, the miracle worker of 1976 is now marked by critics as the political incompetent of 1977 " The New York Daily News's James Wieghart saw a "concern bordering on panic ... friends and advisers feel his presidency hangs in the balance." When the polls at last did begin to show a slip in Carter's popularity, how could any Jeremiah make his alarms more alarmist...
Helms's ultimate fate in the investigation has also eclipsed the involvement of Geneen and Gerrity in the press during the past few weeks. A Rowland Evans and Robert Novak column in late August urged President Carter to order the Justice Department to drop its case against Helms, never once mentioning the ITT angle or the details of how the multinational funnelled $350,000 to Allende's opponents in 1970 with the advice and assistance of the CIA. The Evans and Novak apologia drew rebuttals from columnists Anthony Lewis of the New York Times and Mary McGrory of the Washington...
Jasper M. Rowland...
Thompson repeatedly argued that all lawyers should be castrated and most journalists locked up. Asked if there were any Washington reporters he read regularly. Thompson named, the Washington Post trio of David S. Broder, Jules Witcover, and Jack Germond, and called the syndicated columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak the worst...
...Senators and aides waged their fight in Washington, they persuaded some newsmen to re-examine Brown's Pentagon record. Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak did so in a critical way, finding Brown to be inconsistent. First, he successfully resisted McNamara's efforts to abandon the bombing of North Viet Nam's military supply centers and transportation facilities (at one point Brown urged mining and bombing Haiphong harbor). Then, after the war, he pushed for faster disarmament agreements with the Soviets. In fact, the specific means of waging war are not really in conflict with ways...