Nick Thimmesch is a syndicated columnist with the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. He began his journalism career in Iowa with the Davenport Times before moving to the Des Moines Register. In 1955, he joined Time where he served as a correspondent in Detroit, New York and Washington until 1967, when he became Washington Bureau Chief for Newsday. Mr. Thimmesch is the author of Robert Kennedy at 40 (with William Johnson), The Bobby Kennedy Nobody Knows, and The Condition of Republicanism. He has also written for many national magazines, including Life, Saturday Evening Post, and McCalls and appears regularly on \Meet the Press.\