Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (born 1926) was a professor, a Democrat turned Republican, and the first woman to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick was born November 19, 1926, in Duncan, Oklahoma. As a child she was raised...

(b. November 19, 1926) Political scientist and foreign policy adviser, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (1981–1985). Jeane Kirkpatrick is known as an ardent conservative who became famous in the 1980s for the Kirkpatrick Doctrine, which...

Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick (November 19, 1926 – December 7, 2006) was an American ambassador and an ardent anticommunist. After serving as Ronald Reagan's foreign policy adviser in his 1980 campaign and later in his Cabinet, the longtime...

THE ANNEXATION of Jeane Kirkpatrick by the Republican Party is one of those decisive symbolic events the GOP would be historically delinquent to ignore. So far as one can tell, it is being treated merely as the conversion of a single prominent woman...

Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES With the sad passing of Jeane Kirkpatrick 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...

Leadership: After being told over and over by President Jimmy Carter that America's ability to influence world events was "very limited," the Soviet Union believed him and invaded Afghanistan. And al-Qaida was born.Carter had the perfect "anti-slogan" for a post-Watergate presidential campaign: "I will never...

Leadership: On President Jimmy Carter's watch, more territory was lost to tyranny than at any other time since Yalta. And he'd have us return to those thrilling days of yesteryear.Old communists must still be reminiscing about the good old days of the Carter administration. Thirty...