[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 135 (Friday, December 8, 2006)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E2224-E2225]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              REMEMBERING AMBASSADOR JEANE J. KIRKPATRICK

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                           HON. FRANK R. WOLF

                              of virginia

                    in the house of representatives

                        Friday, December 8, 2006

  Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, we learned some sad news this morning. Jeane 
J. Kirkpatrick, the first woman appointed to serve as permanent 
representative of the United States to the United Nations and as a 
member of President Reagan's cabinet and National Security Council, 
passed away yesterday at age 80. At the time of her death, Ambassador 
Kirkpatrick was a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute 
(AEI) for Public Policy Research.
  Mr. Speaker, I would like to share with our colleagues the following 
statement posted today on the Web site of AEI:

              In Memoriam: Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, 1926-2006

       AEI senior fellow Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, who joined the 
     Institute in 1978, died yesterday. As a young political 
     scientist at Georgetown University, Kirkpatrick wrote the 
     first major study of the role of women in modern politics, 
     Political Woman, which was published in 1974. Her work on the 
     McGovern-Fraser Commission, which was formed in the aftermath 
     of the Democratic Party's tumultuous 1968 convention and 
     changed the way party delegates were chosen, led to 
     Dismantling the Parties: Reflections on Party Reform and 
     Party Decomposition, which AEI published in 1978.
       Yet it was an essay written for Commentary magazine in 
     1979, ``Dictatorships and Double Standards'' (later expanded 
     into a full-length book), that launched her into the 
     political limelight. In the article, Kirkpatrick chronicled 
     the failures of the Carter administration's foreign policy 
     and argued for a clearer understanding of the American 
     national interest. Her essay matched Ronald Reagan's 
     instincts and convictions, and when he became president, he 
     appointed her to represent the United States at the United 
     Nations. Ambassador Kirkpatrick was a member of the 
     president's cabinet and the National Security Council. The 
     United States has lost a great patriot and champion of 
     freedom, and AEI mourns our beloved colleague.

  Mr. Speaker, I also submit for the record a short biography of 
Ambassador Kirkpatrick published by AEI:

  [From the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research]

                  Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, Senior Fellow

       Jeane J. Kirkpatrick was the first woman appointed to serve 
     as permanent representative of the United States to the 
     United Nations and as a member of Ronald Reagan's Cabinet and 
     National Security Council. She served as a member of the 
     President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (1985-1990) 
     and the Defense Policy Review Board (1985-1993), and she also 
     chaired the Secretary of Defense Commission on Fail Safe and 
     Risk Reduction of the Nuclear Command and Control System 
     (1992). Dr. Kirkpatrick headed the U.S. delegation to the 
     Human Rights Commission in 2003.
       For this and related government service, Dr. Kirkpatrick 
     was awarded the Medal of Freedom--the Nation's highest 
     civilian honor--in May 1985 and received her second 
     Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Medal--the 
     highest civilian honor of the Department of Defense--in 
     December 1992. In 2002, the Council on Foreign Relations 
     established the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Chair in National 
     Security, and in 1999 the Kennedy School at Harvard 
     University established the Kirkpatrick Chair in International 
     Affairs. She has held the Leavey Chair of Government at 
     Georgetown University from 1978.
       For her work on NATO enlargement, Vaclav Havel, president 
     of the Czech Republic, awarded her the Tomas Garrigue Masaryk 
     Order, the Czech Republic State Decoration (1998), and H.E. 
     Arpad Goncz, president of Hungary, presented her with the 
     Hungarian Presidential Gold Medal (1999). For other work, she 
     received the 50th Anniversary Friend of Zion Award from the 
     prime minister of Israel (1998); the Casey Medal of Honor 
     from the Center for Security Studies (1998); the Grand 
     Officier Du Wissam Al Alaoui Medal from the king of Morocco 
     (2000); and the Living Legends Medal from the librarian of 
     the Library of Congress (2000).
       Dr. Kirkpatrick has received many other awards and 
     decorations, including: the Award of the Commonwealth Fund; 
     the Gold Medal of the Veterans of Foreign Wars; the Hubert H. 
     Humphrey Award of the American

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     Political Science Association; the Christian A. Herter Award 
     of the Boston World Affairs Association; the Morgenthau Award 
     of the American Council on Foreign Policy; the Humanitarian 
     Award of B'nai B'rith; the Defender of Jerusalem Award; and 
     honorary degrees from more than a dozen and a half 
     universities.
       After her service in the U.S. government, she returned to 
     her previous positions as Leavey Professor of Government at 
     Georgetown University and as senior fellow at AEI. Dr. 
     Kirkpatrick also writes and speaks on a range of issues 
     concerning foreign policy and security affairs and 
     participates in the ongoing dialogue on public issues.
       Dr. Kirkpatrick's published works include: Good Intentions 
     (2003); The Withering Away of the Totalitarian State; 
     Legitimacy and Force (2 vols.); The Reagan Phenomenon; 
     Dictatorships & Double Standards; Dismantling the Parties: 
     Reflections on Party Reform and Party Decomposition; The New 
     Presidential Elite; Political Woman; and Leader and Vanguard 
     in Mass Society: A Study of Peronist Argentina. She is also 
     the author of numerous monograms and articles.
       Dr. Kirkpatrick received an A.B. from Barnard College, M.A. 
     and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University, and studied at 
     the Institute de Science Politique in Paris.

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