Kirkpatrick Weighs Bid for Presidency
Former Gov. Meldrim Thomson said Friday that Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is considering running for the 1988 Republican presidential nomination, and said she told him: “I’m going to do it.”
Thomson said that he met with Kirkpatrick on Thursday in Washington, and they talked about her making a bid. He described her as “being within a hair of running.”
“The last thing she said to me . . . was ‘I’m going to do it. I’m going to do it,’ ” Thomson told reporters in a news conference.
Kirkpatrick had said recently that she would not be a candidate, but an aide, Mark Salter, said in Washington that she is still “seriously considering the suggestion that she become a candidate for the nomination.”
He said she is still thinking it over because of the way issues that concern her are being discussed in the GOP campaign.
Salter said that Kirkpatrick will call on friends and political professionals over the next few weeks, and that she has not set a date for making a decision.
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