Jean Kirkpatrick -- Anybody remember?

8/14/2015 | Linked Bio Lite

[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 aims—believing they could be led into democracy by example. She wrote, "Traditional authoritarian governments are less repressive than revolutionary autocracies."[2]"

[Harry Pothead]

She was Bill-the-Cat’s girlfriend...

[Boston Blackie]

She wasn't a very handsome woman.

She was a tough bird but she was no turkey.Tough as nails and pro America.

[SunkenCiv]

I remember that her opponents referred to her as "schoolmarmish", an obviously and blatantly sexist term. Thanks Fhios.

[SparkyBass]

"She was Bill-the-Cat’s girlfriend..."

Jean Kirkpatrick is nobody's baby!

:)

[Controlling Legal Authority]

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.

[SparkyBass]

"She was Bill-the-Cat’s girlfriend..."

Jean Kirkpatrick is nobody's baby!

:)

[Jane Long]

LOL....was thinking that, as well.

[Liberty Valance]

lol!

[Vinnie]

I would have voted for her as the first female president.
Very sharp woman.

[chasio649]

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.

[Rockingham]

Jeane Kirkpatrick was a political scientist and a traditional Democrat who, in the late 1970s, became alienated from her party due to its increasing unwillingness to defend the country and oppose communism. Reagan secured her help as a foreign policy adviser in his 1980 campaign and then appointed her to several key foreign policy posts in his administration.

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.

[Fhios]

It was also the heydey of Diane Feinstein, an unabashed liberal of actually very little accomplishment.

[Rockingham]

Yet, remarkably, DiFi is not nearly as bad as California’s other senator, Barbara Boxer.

[fieldmarshaldj]

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.

[fieldmarshaldj]

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.

[Pelham]

One of the premier Reagan Democrats. Ronnie appointed Jeane Kirkpatrick as our UN Ambassador to kick ass and take names.

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.

[Rockingham]

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.