Posted on 08/14/2015 10:36:05 AM PDT by Fhios
... "She was known for the "Kirkpatrick Doctrine", which advocated U.S. support of anticommunist governments around the world, including authoritarian dictatorships, if they went along with Washington's aimsbelieving they could be led into democracy by example. She wrote, "Traditional authoritarian governments are less repressive than revolutionary autocracies."[2]"
She was Bill-the-Cat’s girlfriend...
She was a tough bird but she was no turkey.Tough as nails and pro America.
I remember that her opponents referred to her as "schoolmarmish", an obviously and blatantly sexist term. Thanks Fhios.
Jean Kirkpatrick is nobody's baby!
:)
She spoke at my wife’s college graduation in 1978. I remember her advising the all woman graduating class to follow her example: have kids first, keep up with their chosen field while raising their kids, and then put their degree to financial use after the kiddies are grown.
Jean Kirkpatrick is nobody's baby!
:)
LOL....was thinking that, as well.
lol!
I would have voted for her as the first female president.
Very sharp woman.
In her heydey...My ultra conservative father cheered her....I saw one of her last TV appearances years later...Dementia had set in and she was a shell...it was so sad.
In time though, differences over policy and personality clashes with Alexander Haig and George Schultz led to Kirkpatrick's resignation and return to academic life. With better circumstances and a dash of luck, Kirkpatrick might have been Reagan's running mate in 1984 or a GOP candidate for President herself.
It was also the heydey of Diane Feinstein, an unabashed liberal of actually very little accomplishment.
Yet, remarkably, DiFi is not nearly as bad as California’s other senator, Barbara Boxer.
Wrong Peggy. That’s Peg Heckler, the liberal Republican Congresswoman from MA who lost to Barney Frank and was given HHS.
The tall man you refer to (I presume next to Samuel Pierce of HUD, the lone Black in the Cabinet) is Bill Clark. He was Interior Secretary at the time of the photo (circa 1983-85).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Clark,_Jr.
Had it been Scoop Jackson who won the Dem nomination and Presidency in 1976, it’s very likely he’d have made Kirkpatrick Sec of Defense or Sec of State.
She wrote a valuable book back then, 'Dictatorships and Double Standards' which apparently can be had for pennies today. It's still worth your time to read.
Quite likely. If I recall correctly, while Carter was President, Jackson and Kilpatrick became associated through the Committee on the Present Danger, a public interest group composed of hawkish Democrats opposed to detente and arms cuts. I heard Kilpatrick speak once at the local university in the late 80s and was impressed with her intelligence and the serious, academic manner in which she summarized opposing views without rancor or distortion.
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