На роль посла США в ООН Рейган выбрал демократку Джин Киркпатрик. Вместе с Энн Горсач она была самой высокопоставленной женщиной в кабинете.
С Киркпатрик Рейгана объединяло участие в неформальной организации Committee on the Present Danger, организованной в 1976 для противодействия политике разрядки с СССР по инициативе Джеймся Шлезингера, министра обороны в кабинете Никсона. Участники комиссии не поддерживали инициатив Киссинджера и считали, что вести переговоры с советскими руководителями следует с позиции силы. Многие из них позже оказались в администрации Рейгана, независимо от партийной принадлежности. Киркпатрик перейдет в республиканскую партию только в 1985, присоединившись к растущему движению неоконов.
The Committee on the Present Danger, which was formed five years ago to press for a strong posture against the Soviet Union, has placed 32 of its 182 members in the Reagan Administration thus far. Some of them helped develop the ideas that led to President Reagan's speech last week offering arms-control proposals to the Soviet Union. The best-known and most influential of the former committee members is, of course, Ronald Reagan. But alumni of the committee are sprinkled throughout the highest levels of the Government, amounting to a virtual takeover of the nation's national security apparatus. One alumnus, Richard V. Allen, is Mr. Reagan's national security adviser. Another, William J. Casey, is Director of Central Intelligence. A third, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, is the United States representative at the United Nations. Yet another, John F. Lehman, is Secretary of the Navy. https://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/23/us/group-goes-from-exile-to-influence.html
In 1977, Mrs. Kirkpatrick was less discreet. In ''Why the New Right Lost,'' another Commentary essay included in this current book, she criticized the rightist variety of the new class on the ground that the ideological perspective in politics bred ''intolerance of diversity, impatience with compromise, and the kind of intransigence characteristic of sectarian, rule-or-ruin politics.'' In her 1979 piece ''Politics and the 'New Class,' '' when she was more concerned with the leftist variety, she went so far as to express the belief that ''politics featuring large roles for intellectuals is especially dangerous to human liberty.'' She accused intellectuals of a tendency ''to find reality wanting'' and of a ''marked proclivity for moralistic politics.'' The new class was clearly the enemy for her before she became a charter member of its neoconservative subdivision. This was her position just before Richard V. Allen, then foreignaffairs adviser to candidate Ronald Reagan, read her article in Commentary and brought it to Mr. Reagan's attention, thereby setting in motion a series of tete-a-tetes that ultimately brought her to the United Nations at the new President's express behest. It is odd to read the ominous warnings against the new class in this book by one who now belongs to it. Something apparently happened to Mrs. Kirkpatrick's viewpoint when the new class shifted its main attention from the Democratic to the Republican Party and she was given the opportunity to play a large role in politics. https://www.nytimes.com/1982/07/25/books/the-ambassadors-theories.html
На роль посла США в ООН Рейган выбрал демократку Джин Киркпатрик. Вместе с Энн Горсач она была самой высокопоставленной женщиной в кабинете.
С Киркпатрик Рейгана объединяло участие в неформальной организации Committee on the Present Danger, организованной в 1976 для противодействия политике разрядки с СССР по инициативе Джеймся Шлезингера, министра обороны в кабинете Никсона. Участники комиссии не поддерживали инициатив Киссинджера и считали, что вести переговоры с советскими руководителями следует с позиции силы. Многие из них позже оказались в администрации Рейгана, независимо от партийной принадлежности. Киркпатрик перейдет в республиканскую партию только в 1985, присоединившись к растущему движению неоконов.
The Committee on the Present Danger, which was formed five years ago to press for a strong posture against the Soviet Union, has placed 32 of its 182 members in the Reagan Administration thus far. Some of them helped develop the ideas that led to President Reagan's speech last week offering arms-control proposals to the Soviet Union.
The best-known and most influential of the former committee members is, of course, Ronald Reagan. But alumni of the committee are sprinkled throughout the highest levels of the Government, amounting to a virtual takeover of the nation's national security apparatus.
One alumnus, Richard V. Allen, is Mr. Reagan's national security adviser. Another, William J. Casey, is Director of Central Intelligence. A third, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, is the United States representative at the United Nations. Yet another, John F. Lehman, is Secretary of the Navy.
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/23/us/group-goes-from-exile-to-influence.html
In 1977, Mrs. Kirkpatrick was less discreet. In ''Why the New Right Lost,'' another Commentary essay included in this current book, she criticized the rightist variety of the new class on the ground that the ideological perspective in politics bred ''intolerance of diversity, impatience with compromise, and the kind of intransigence characteristic of sectarian, rule-or-ruin politics.'' In her 1979 piece ''Politics and the 'New Class,' '' when she was more concerned with the leftist variety, she went so far as to express the belief that ''politics featuring large roles for intellectuals is especially dangerous to human liberty.'' She accused intellectuals of a tendency ''to find reality wanting'' and of a ''marked proclivity for moralistic politics.'' The new class was clearly the enemy for her before she became a charter member of its neoconservative subdivision.
This was her position just before Richard V. Allen, then foreignaffairs adviser to candidate Ronald Reagan, read her article in Commentary and brought it to Mr. Reagan's attention, thereby setting in motion a series of tete-a-tetes that ultimately brought her to the United Nations at the new President's express behest. It is odd to read the ominous warnings against the new class in this book by one who now belongs to it. Something apparently happened to Mrs. Kirkpatrick's viewpoint when the new class shifted its main attention from the Democratic to the Republican Party and she was given the opportunity to play a large role in politics.
https://www.nytimes.com/1982/07/25/books/the-ambassadors-theories.html
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