Townhall.com Jack Kemp December 11, 2006
I’m writing this column with a very heavy heart at the passing on the night of Dec. 7 of one of America’s greatest and most brilliant diplomats, my colleague and friend, former Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. Indeed Monday of this week was a memorial service at our Presbyterian church in which I was privileged to give a eulogy.
Former United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick is seen in this Nov. 4, 1990 file photo. Former U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, a onetime Democrat who switched to the Republican Party and became a heroine of conservatives, has died. She was 80. (AP Photo/File)
Jeane Kirkpatrick was a neighbor, co-founder – along with former Rep. Vin Weber, Secretary Bill Bennett and Michael Novak – of “our think tank,” Empower America (though Jeane was a one person “think tank”). Empower America sought to combine Jeane’s foreign policy and pro-defense ideas with our pro-growth, low-tax and free-trade ideas, all of which were championed by President Ronald Reagan so successfully in the ’80s.
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