Thimmesch, 57, Political Analyst, Dies

Nick Thimmesch, a Washington-based columnist, died Thursday at his Chevy Chase, Md., home of liver cancer, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Times Syndicate said Thursday. He was 57.

Articles by Thimmesch, whose twice-weekly political analysis appeared in about 40 newspapers, were published in Esquire, the New York Times Magazine, New York and Sports Illustrated, among other magazines.

He was the co-author of “Robert Kennedy at 40” and wrote two other books, “The Condition of Republicanism” and “The Robert Kennedy Nobody Knows.”

Thimmesch also had done commentary for National Public Radio and Cable News Network.

He had been an adviser to the President’s Commission on World Population and was a fellow of the John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Institute of Politics at Harvard University. He also was a resident journalist at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington.

Born in Dubuque, Iowa, and graduated from Iowa State University, Thimmesch worked for the Davenport Times and the Des Moines Register in his home state before becoming a Time correspondent. He was named Newsday’s Washington bureau chief in 1967 and, two years later, became a syndicated columnist. Thimmesch is survived by five children.

Funeral services will be held Saturday at the Blessed Sacrament Church in Washington.