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Jeane Kirkpatrick was a 20th-century American diplomat and presidential advisor. Jeane Duane Kirkpatrick was an American diplomat and political scientist who played a major role in the foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration. An ardent anticommunist, she was a longtime Democrat who became a neoconservative and switched to the Republican Party in 1985. Read more on Wikipedia →

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