Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

A professor of political science at Georgetown University, Kirkpatrick entered government service. She wasn't simply the first American woman named ambassador to the United Nations, she was also the only woman on President Ronald Reagan's National Security Council -- and the only lifelong Democrat there. "I was a Democrat once, you know," Reagan told her. "When she put her feet under the desk of the Oval Office, the President listened," said William P. Clark, Reagan's national security advisor. The Soviets, especially, didn't like Kirkpatrick, and spent a lot of effort trying to discredit her -- even forging letters in her name. She shrugged it off. "I felt there was as much disinformation aimed at me from inside our own government, frankly, as from the Soviet Union," she once said. "That's a shocking thing to say, but it is no exaggeration." She left the U.N. after four years and returned to private life, though she briefly considered running for president herself. She died at home in her sleep on December 7. She was 80. From This is True for 3 December 2006 Suggestions for further reading: Making War to Keep Peace by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Amazon Price: Customer Review: We Americans have assumed that most of the world's peoples shared our goals and values, especially our need to be free. We've thought they had the same yearnings, concerns and ideals. September 11, however, should have taught us that what we believed...   Kirkpatrick Mission (Diplomacy Wo Apology Ame at the United Nations 1981 to 85 by Gerson Amazon Price: $55.00 Customer Review: This book does an excellent job of exposing the UN's support for terror and antisemitism. And we discover how difficult it was for even Jeane Kirkpatrick to counter some of it. However, I think the main issue of the book is not Kirkpatrick, but the...   The Withering Away of the Totalitarian State : And Other Surprises by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Amazon Price: Customer Review: In her most surprising and unexpected book yet, Ms. Kirkpatrick shows her flair for foreign policy, and also her flair in the kitchen! Sandwiched between erudite analysis of the geopolitical consequences of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Ms. K...   Dictatorships and double standards: Rationalism and reason in politics by Jeane J Kirkpatrick Amazon Price: Customer Review: Kirkpatrick wrote a book that deserves to be more widely read. The title refers to the American tendency which has never left us, even during supposedly conservative eras, of assuming that all dictatorships are alike or that so called ri...   Making War to Keep Peace: Trials and Errors in American Foreign Policy from K... by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Amazon Price: $6.10 Customer Review: Reveals the actions leading up to today's problems and what went wrong. Suggest ways to avoid repeating our mistakes and handling foreign affairs better. A real eye opener to the working of the United Nations.   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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