Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, the Reagan administration's first U.N. ambassador and a strong beacon of neoconservative thought who helped chart the course of American military, diplomatic and covert actions from 1981 to 1985, died Thursday at her home in Bethesda, Md. She was 80. Her death was announced Friday by the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, where she was a senior fellow. The cause was congestive heart failure, said her personal assistant, Tammy Jagyur. Kirkpatrick was the first American woman to serve as U.N. ambassador. She was the only woman, and the only Democrat, in President Reagan's National Security Council. No woman had ever been so close to the center of presidential power without actually residing in the White House.
's criticism of "San Francisco Democrats" in her keynote speech to the 1984 Republican National Convention is well- remembered and was quoted in many of her obituaries. Helle Dale is to be commended for quoting additional portions of that speech, including Mrs. Kirkpatrick's denunciation of the "brutal" anti-Semitism practiced by the Soviet government ("Missing Jeane," Op-Ed, yesterday).
WASHINGTON Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, a political science professor whose support for Ronald Reagan conservatism catapulted her into the post of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has died at 80. She was the first woman to hold the post. Initially a liberal Democrat, Ms. Kirkpatrick championed human rights, opposed Soviet Union communism and supported Israel.
With the sad passing of yesterday, the United States lost a true champion of liberty and freedom whose valorous efforts were indispensable to victory in the Cold War. The "Reagan Democrat" was a pillar of American foreign policy intellect, both during her years in the Reagan administration and after, and she was a tireless defender of human rights. As one of the very best U.S. ambassadors to the United Nations, Mrs. Kirkpatrick proved her effectiveness as a stalwart defender of U.S. interests, a point emphasized by an emotional John Bolton, who said that she "made it clear during tensions in the Cold War that America's interests here at the U.N. were advanced when the cause of liberty was advanced." Appointed by President Reagan in 1981, Mrs. Kirkpatrick arrived at the...
WASHINGTON - Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, a political science professor whose support for Ronald Reagan conservatism catapulted her into the post of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has died at 80. She was the first woman to hold the post. Initially a liberal Democrat, Kirkpatrick championed human rights, opposed Soviet Union communism and supported Israel.
Jeane Kirkpatrick will be sorely missed. In fact, Mrs. Kirkpatrick, who passed away last week, already is missed. One of her quick-witted responses to the attack on U.S. foreign policy by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is just what we need. A great advocate of America's founding ideals, values and freedoms, she would not have had any patience for this kind of talk. Mr. Annan's speech in Independence, Mo., castigated the Bush administration for having abandoned the values that made America great, and he said that U.S. allies were "troubled and confused" by its behavior. "No state can make its own actions legitimate in the eyes of others. When power, especially military force is used, the world will consider it legitimate only when convinced that it is being used for the right purpose ...
It's likely that, like John Bolton, Jeane Kirkpatrick could never be confirmed as U.N. ambassador today. She was too frank, too stout and too forthright in confronting tyranny. The wimpy world of Western diplomacy just won't stand for that today.
Sorry, Dad, I'm voting for [Barack Obama]," wrote Christopher Buckley, son of the late conservative thinker and founder of the highly influential National Review William F. Buckley, on "The Daily Beast" blog last week. Like [Colin Powell], he also expressed great disappointment with the "mean-spirited and pointless" attacks the [John McCain] campaign has mounted against Obama in its campaign. About [Sarah Palin]'s nomination, Buckley asked, "What on earth can he have been thinking? Those tactics and Palin's nomination have also provoked strong complaints - if not yet Obama endorsements - from other prominent figures on the right, including conservative nationally syndicated columnist George Will and even some of his neo-conservative colleagues, such as the Washington Post's Charles Kr...
..., who served as a top aide to neo-con icon Jeane Kirkpatrick and authored a memoir of her years as ...
Quintessential American and true intellectual, she brought common sense to the crazy-quilt world of international politics. She gave no quarter to strong men pursuing her agenda to bring down tyrannies, in the process helping formulate what later became known as the Reagan Doctrine. Jeane (nee Fulton) Kirkpatrick (1923-2006) was a self-described "AFL-CIO Democrat"-turned-neo-conservative, along with Irving Kristol and a flock of other disillusioned former liberals who became card-carrying, sometimes reluctant Republicans, called Reaganauts.
That great American ambassador and lovely lady Jeane Kirkpatrick has left us, but her passing also causes us to remember her strategic sense and moral clarity. She came to national prominence in Reaganite circles in 1979 with her marvelous Commentary magazine essay called "Dictatorship and Double Standards." It argued that traditional authoritarian autocracies were both more susceptible to liberalization and more amenable to American interests than totalitarian dictatorships of the left, which came into power with disturbing frequency in the late 1970s, with America as their stated enemy.
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