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Jeane Kirkpatrick
Ambassador to the United Nations · 1981
Jeane Kirkpatrick, Ambassador to the United Nations. The Senate voted 81–0 on the nomination on Jan 29, 1981 (). Jeane Duane Kirkpatrick was an American diplomat and political scientist who played a major role in the foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration. An ardent anti-communist, she was a longtime Democrat who became a neoconservative and switched to the Republican Party in 1985.
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- Ambassador to the United Nations1981-02-04–1985-04-01
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97th Congress · 81–0 · Jan 29, 1981
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Jeane Duane Kirkpatrick was an American diplomat and political scientist who played a major role in the foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration. An ardent anti-communist, she was a longtime Democrat who became a neoconservative and switched to the Republican Party in 1985.
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