[elc]

Oops, posted the wrong one:

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0101271.html

[pgkdan]

Ronald Reagan told Jean Kirkpatrick that if she came on board as UN Ambassador that she would be a full member of teh Cabinet and that her position would have the same rank and authority as a Dept. Secretary and that she specifically was not a part of the State Dept.

I have Bill Bennet's Morning in America CD that was recorded the week after the death of Ronald Reagan and one of the folks who called in Bennett's show with a remembrance was Kirkpatrick, she related the story and Bennet said that he remembered Reagan telling the rest of the Cabinet and that Jean Kirkpatrick attended Reagan's Cabinet Meetings.