Jeane Kirkpatrick/Definition

(1926-2006) First woman to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in the Ronald Reagan Administration; 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); senior fellow of the American Enterprise Institute