A Look at Jeane Kirkpatrick's Political Legacy

NPR

Published December 8, 2006 at 1:00 PM EST

Kirkpatrick (center) shares a chuckle with former Sen. Bob Dole (left) and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger at a Capitol Hill meeting in March 1999.

Former United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, a prominent conservative thinker, has died at 80. Kenneth Adelman, who served as deputy U.N. ambassador during Kirkpatrick's term, discusses Kirkpatrick's career with Madeleine Brand.

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