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This piece came to the attention of Ronald Reagan through his National Security Adviser Richard V. Allen.

Kirkpatrick then became a foreign policy adviser throughout Reagan's 1980 campaign and presidency and, after his election to the presidency, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, a position she held for four years.

She had never been around a Republican before.

On the way to her first meeting with him, she told Allen, " Listen, Dick, I am an AFL-CIO Democrat and I am quite concerned that my meeting Ronald Reagan on any basis will be misunderstood.

" She asked Reagan if he minded having a lifelong Democrat on his team ; he replied that he himself had been a Democrat till age 51, and in any event he liked her way of thinking about American foreign policy.