Kirkpatrick Officially Out--No Better Offer : U.N. Envoy Decides to Return to Teaching After Talk With Reagan

U.N. Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, tired of her present job and offered nothing better within the Administration, personally gave President Reagan her final, unequivocal notice of resignation Wednesday and announced that she will return to the “independence” of teaching.

Conservatives had been publicly campaigning for Reagan to find a place within his inner circle for the outspoken one-time member of the Democratic National Committee. But his most coveted foreign policy slots all are filled--secretary of state, national security adviser, defense secretary, CIA director--and Reagan is not the type to ask anybody to step aside.

Besides, Kirkpatrick’s style--sometimes stormy, often confrontational--generally has been thought by Reagan’s closest aides to be incompatible with the low-key, diplomatic personalities of his two most influential foreign policy advisers: Secretary of State George P. Shultz and National Security Adviser Robert C. McFarlane. “She’d be a disaster,” one White House senior official told The Times recently.

Guardian of Ideology

Hard-core conservatives, however, regard her as a guardian of the President’s true ideology and an invaluable counterbalance to the Administration’s pragmatists, such as Shultz and outgoing White House Chief of Staff James A. Baker III, who dissuaded Reagan 15 months ago from naming Kirkpatrick as his national security adviser.

“No, no, no, no, no,” Kirkpatrick insisted Wednesday when asked whether she is disappointed that Reagan did not offer her a more influential post during their 35-minute meeting in the Oval Office.

“If I had wanted a top foreign policy job in the second term, I would have remained as permanent U.S. representative to the United Nations,” she said. The 58-year-old diplomat explained that she is on leave from an endowed Georgetown University professorship, a job she would have had to abandon if she had stayed in the Administration.

“I am very committed to teaching and writing and the independence that goes with that, and it’s the life I intend to return to,” she said.

But that is a refrain Kirkpatrick has voiced almost from the start of her U.N. tenure. And White House spokesman Larry Speakes disclosed that--although Kirkpatrick had brought him a prepared resignation statement just before her meeting with Reagan--she had instructed him not to release it until he got further instructions from her.

The prepared statement said that she originally had submitted her resignation to the President last December, asking to leave on March 1 “or as soon thereafter” as a successor could be selected. “I now feel that I can best serve the President and our shared objectives . . . by returning to teaching and writing.”

Meanwhile, the President announced several other job changes Wednesday as his incoming chief of staff, Donald T. Regan, began filling in the boxes on a new White House organization chart. Regan, now Treasury secretary, is slated to swap jobs with Baker next Monday.

The White House announced that:

--Alfred H. Kingon, assistant Treasury secretary for policy planning and communications, will become the President’s new Cabinet secretary, replacing Craig L. Fuller, who will be Regan’s No. 1 aide for a few months during the transition and then resign to take a job in the private sector.

--Thomas C. Dawson, assistant Treasury secretary for business and consumer affairs, will partly replace Richard A. Darman as a presidential assistant and deputy to the chief of staff. Darman will become Treasury undersecretary.

--Christopher Hicks, Regan’s current executive assistant, will become the President’s deputy assistant for administration, replacing John F. W. Rogers, who will become an assistant Treasury secretary for management.

--David Chew, senior deputy comptroller of the currency for policy and planning, will become the White House staff secretary, taking over Darman’s key job of managing the paper flow to the President.

--Richard Riley, a special assistant to Regan, will be the new chief of staff’s personal assistant.

--Margaret Tutwiler, now the deputy presidential assistant for political affairs, will become assistant Treasury secretary for public affairs and public liaison.