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Kate O’Beirne, Washington editor for National Review, with Tim Russert on "Meet the Press" in February 2008.
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Kate O'Beirne
Died on April 23, 2017 at age 67
Ms. O’Beirne cogently advanced the conservative agenda in the pages of National Review and unflinchingly defended it on the CNN program “The Capital Gang,” earning the designation “the den mother of the American right” from a colleague.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.