Jeane Kirkpatrick
Jeane Duane Kirkpatrick née Jordan; November 19, 1926 – December 7, 2006 was an American diplomat as well as political scientist who played the major role in a foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration. An ardent anticommunist, she was a longtime Democrat who became a neoconservative as well as switched to the Republican Party in 1985. After serving as Ronald Reagan's foreign policy adviser in his 1980 campaign, she became the number one woman to serve as United States Ambassador to the United Nations.
She was required for the "Kirkpatrick Doctrine", which advocated supporting authoritarian regimes around the world if they went along with Washington's aims. She believed that they could be led into democracy by example. She wrote, "traditional authoritarian governments are less repressive than revolutionary autocracies." She sympathized with the Argentine government during the Falklands War when President Reagan came out in assist of Margaret Thatcher.
Kirkpatrick served in Reagan's Cabinet on the National Security Council, Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, Defense Policy Review Board, and chaired the Secretary of Defense Commission on Fail Safe and Risk reduction of the Nuclear advice and command System. She wrote a syndicated newspaper column after leaving government expediency in 1985, specializing in analysis of the activities of the United Nations.