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Jeane Kirkpatrick



She was a staunch supporter of the State of Israel. During her ambassadorship at the United Nations, she considered its frequent criticism and condemnation of the Jewish State as holding Israel to a double standard. She attributed it to hostility and considered it as politically motivated. In 1989, Mohammed Wahby, press director of Egypt's Information Bureau, wrote to the Washington Post saying, "Jeane Kirkpatrick has, somehow, consistently opposed any attempt to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict." Kirkpatrick had warned Secretary of State James Baker and President Bush in an op-ed, not get involved in the conflict, because any intervention "will fail."[10]

Anti-Defamation League President Abraham Foxman issued a press release upon her passing saying that "She will be fondly remembered for her unwavering and valiant support of the State of Israel and her unequivocal opposition to anti-Semitism, especially during her tenure at the United Nations. She was always a true friend of the Jewish people."[11]

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Political views

Comparing authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, she said:

  • "Authoritarian regimes really typically don't have complete command economies. Authoritarian regimes typically have some kind of traditional economy with some private ownership. The Nazi regime left ownership in private hands, but the state assumed control of the economy. Control was separated from ownership but it was really a command economy because it was controlled by the state. A command economy is an attribute of a totalitarian state."[12]

Explaining her disillusionment with international organizations, especially the United Nations, she stated:

  • "As I watched the behavior of the nations of the U.N. (including our own), I found no reasonable ground to expect any one of those governments to transcend permanently their own national interests for those of another country."
  • "I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions."
  • "Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God."

About socialist activism, she said:

  • "As I read the utopian socialists, the scientific socialists, the German Social Democrats and revolutionary socialists — whatever I could in either English or French — I came to the conclusion that almost all of them, including my grandfather, were engaged in an effort to change human nature. The more I thought about it, the more I thought this was not likely to be a successful effort. So I turned my attention more and more to political philosophy and less and less to socialist activism of any kind."[6]

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After the Reagan administration

In 1985, Kirkpatrick became a Republican (which The Economist called her "only recourse" after her speech at the 1984 Republican convention)[1] and returned to teaching at Georgetown University. She also became a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington D.C. think tank, and a contributor to the American Freedom Journal. In 1993, she co-founded Empower America, a public-policy organization. She was also on the advisory board of the National Association of Scholars, a group that works against what it regards as a liberal bias in academia, with its emphasis on multicultural education and affirmative action.

Kirkpatrick briefly considered running for President in 1988 against George H.W. Bush, because she believed he was not tough enough on Communism.[5][1] Along with Empower America co-directors William Bennett and Jack Kemp, she called on the Congress to issue a formal declaration of war against the "entire fundamentalist Islamist terrorist network" the day after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

In 2003, she headed the US delegation to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. Kirkpatrick was appointed to the Board of Directors of IDT Corp. in 2004.[3] It was revealed after her death that in 2003, she was sent as a US envoy, to meet an Arab delegation and attempt to convince them to support the Iraq War; she was supposed to argue that pre-emptive war was justifiable, but she knew this would not work and instead argued that Saddam Hussein had consistently gone against the UN.[5]

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Personal life

On February 20, 1955, she married Evron Maurice Kirkpatrick, who was a scholar and a former member of the O.S.S. (the World War II-era predecessor of the CIA). Her husband died in 1995. They had three sons: Douglas Jordan (1956-2006), John Evron, and Stuart Alan (a.k.a. Traktung Rinpoche, a Buddhist lama).[13]

Kirkpatrick died at her home in Bethesda, MD, on December 7, 2006 of congestive heart failure.[14] She had been diagnosed with heart disease and had been in failing health for several years.[15]

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Quotes

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:
  • "When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the San Francisco Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies. They blame United States policies of 100 years ago. But then they always blame America first."[16]
  • "Russia is playing chess, while we are playing Monopoly. The only question is whether they will checkmate us before we bankrupt them."[17]

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Awards and honors

Kirkpatrick received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.[3] The Kennedy School of Government at Harvard created a Kirkpatrick Chair in International Affairs in her honor.[18] Kirkpatrick was awarded an honorary degree by Brandeis University in 1994, but her honor was met with protests from some professors and students. One of the 53 (out of 350 total Brandeis faculty) opposing professors said, "We oppose the degree because she was the intellectual architect of Reagan administration policies that supported some of the Latin-American regimes with the most repressive records."[19]

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Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Jeane Kirkpatrick", The Economist, 2006-12-19. Retrieved on 2007-08-16. 
  2. ^ "Middle Israel: The new world order", The Jerusalem Post, 2006-12-14. Retrieved on 2007-08-16. 
  3. ^ a b c Jeane Kirkpatrick, Former United States Ambassador to The United Nations, Joins IDT Corporation Board of Directors. IDT Europe (2004-09-27). Retrieved on 2007-08-16.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Jeane Kirkpatrick and the Cold War (audio)", NPR, 2006-12-08. Retrieved on 2007-08-16. 
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i Cornwell, Rupert. "Jeane Kirkpatrick", The Independent, December 11, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-08-16. 
  6. ^ a b c Socialism: What Happened? What Now?. symposium transcript. Notesonline and the New Economy Information Service (June 27, 2002). Retrieved on 2006-12-09.
  7. ^ a b "Jeane Kirkpatrick and the Great Democratic Defection", The New York Times, 2006-12-16. Retrieved on 2007-08-16. 
  8. ^ a b William, Buckley. "Prime time for Mrs. Kirkpatrick?", National Review, August 10, 1984. Retrieved on 2007-08-16. 
  9. ^ a b O'Sullivan, John. "She was right: Jeane Kirkpatrick, statesman and intellectual.", The National Review, December 31, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-08-16. 
  10. ^ "Jeane Kirkpatrick's Mideast Warning", Washington Post, 1989-12-27. Retrieved on 2007-08-16. 
  11. ^ ADL Mourns the Passing of Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. Retrieved on 2006-12-08.
  12. ^ "Toward Humane Governance (Interview)" (March/April 1992). Religion & Liberty 2 (2). 
  13. ^ Hartson, Merrill. "Jean Kirkpatrick, Ex-Ambassador, Dies", Forbes.com, December 8, 2006. Retrieved on 2006-12-09. 
  14. ^ Zengerle, Patricia. "Former U.N. ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick dies at 80", Politics (section), Reuters.com, December 8, 2006. Retrieved on 2006-12-09. 
  15. ^ Associated Press. "Former U.N. envoy Kirkpatrick dies", Politics (section), CNN.com, December 8, 2006. Retrieved on 2006-12-09. 
  16. ^ Speech at the 1984 Republican National Convention
  17. ^ Speech given during the 1988 Barrick Lecture Series at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  18. ^ "EDITORIAL: Jeane Kirkpatrick.", Pueblo Chieftain, December 14, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-08-16. 
  19. ^ "Jeane Kirkpatrick: hated, but right. (Originated from Boston Globe)", Knight-Ridder News Service, May 12, 1994. Retrieved on 2007-08-16. 

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Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Donald McHenry		 U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
1981 – 1985		 Succeeded by
Vernon A. Walters
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Persondata
NAME Kirkpatrick, Jeane Jordan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION American diplomat and Presidential advisor
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Duncan, Oklahoma
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 2006
PLACE OF DEATH



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