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...step for a few he wanted. But with the naming of five more Cabinet officers and two principal White House aides last week, Reagan's top offices were filled except for a handful of posts, including Secretary of Education and Special Trade Representative. The new selections: Jeane Kirkpatrick, professor of government at Georgetown University, as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Denver Lawyer James Watt, an advocate of oil and gas development of wilderness lands, as Secretary of the Interior; Samuel Pierce, a black attorney and labor mediator hi New York, as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; John...
...standing of the Establishment, and five even attended that citadel of Eastern elitism, Harvard: Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, Attorney General William French Smith, Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis, Management and Budget Director David Stockman. A few have had Washington experience: Secretary of State Alexander Haig, Weinberger, Kirkpatrick and Watt. Others are outsiders: Secretary of Labor Raymond Donovan, Block and Edwards. The Cabinet is also divided between managers such as Regan and Weinberger and conceptualizers like Kirkpatrick and Stockman, who can be counted on for new, and maybe arresting, ideas...
...helped that Jeane Kirkpatrick is a woman and a Democrat. But her selection as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations was made chiefly on the grounds of her intellect. She first came to Reagan's attention last year when Commentary magazine published her forcefully written, tightly reasoned article criticizing the weaknesses and inconsistencies in Jimmy Carter's human rights policies. She concluded that the President behaved "not like a man who abhors autocrats, but like one who abhors only right-wing autocrats...
Reagan told her that the article was the best piece he had read on the subject, and the one that came closest to expressing his own foreign policy views. From that time on, Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick, 54, seemed destined for a top post in a Reagan Administration...
...part of a group of hard-line defense and foreign policy intellectuals associated with the American Enterprise Institute and Georgetown University, where she teaches political science. A gifted lecturer with a schoolmarm's no-nonsense forthrightness, Kirkpatrick is admired and sometimes feared by colleagues as a scorching polemicist-an attribute that may win her some points but may also make some difficulties for her, as it did for one other outspoken U.N. Ambassador, Daniel Patrick Moynihan...