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Senator Henry M. Jackson, 1912-1983: 1953-1983 U.S. Senate
The portal provides a general overview of key archival, printed, and visual resources in UW Libraries Special Collections that document Senator Jackson's long and distinguished career in public service.
First Term
January: Jackson begins his first term, U.S. Senate, Washington State
January: Dwight D. Eisenhower inaugurated 34th President of the United States
January: Senator Joseph McCarthy appointed chairman, and Robert F. Kennedy is appointed assistant counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on Government Operations, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
March 5: Joseph Stalin dies
May 22: Columbia Basin Water Festival and Farm-in-a-Day construction, Moses Lake, Washington State
June 18: Senator Joseph McCarthy appoints J.B. Matthews executive director, U.S. Senate, Committee on Government Operations, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
July: J.B. Matthews publishes "Reds and our churches," American Mercury
July 2-10: Senators Jackson, Stuart Symington, and John L. McClellan demand the resignation of J.B. Matthews and resign, U.S. Senate Committee on Government Operations, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations[iii]
July 29: Robert F. Kennedy resigns from Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Fall: Senator Joseph McCarthy launches an investigation into the Army Signal Corps and General Ralph W. Zwicker
January: Senators Jackson, Stuart Symington, and John L. McClellan rejoin Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and appoint Robert F. Kennedy to minority counsel
February: Roy Cohn appointed chief counsel, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
April-June: Army-McCarthy hearings
July 15: First Boeing 707 prototype makes its first flight from Renton Field, Renton, Washington
July: France withdraws from Vietnam
Summer: Jackson appointed to the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee
September 8: Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) established
September 27: Watkins Committee recommends censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy
December 2: U.S. Senate approves censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy
Opening of the McNary Dam
The United States sends troops to South Vietnam
Dr. Dorothy Fosdick joins the Jackson staff (1954-1983)
January: Jackson is reappointed to the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee and retains his appointment to the U.S. Senate Committee on Government Operations, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Spring: Jackson is appointed chairman, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Military Applications Committee
June 30: Jackson and Senator Clinton P. Anderson, chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, submit a letter and report to President Dwight D. Eisenhower on the Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) Program
July: The Geneva Summit Conference convenes, Geneva, Switzerland
November: Jackson visits Vietnam and East Asia
Jackson aide John L. Salter marries, and Jackson moves to 2500 Q Street, Georgetown, Washington, D.C.
Jackson is appointed U.S. delegate and chairman of the Science and Technology Committee, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Parliamentarians Conference, Paris, France
Chief Joseph Dam opens
February 1: Jackson delivers an address before the U.S. Senate, “The Race for Ballistic Missiles”
April: General Alfred M. Gruenther announces his retirement, Supreme Allied Commander Europe
August: Jackson visits the Soviet Union and the Middle East
October 29: Suez crisis begins
October 31: Hungarian Prime Minister Imre Hagy announces withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact
November 1: The Soviet Union invades Hungary
November 22: President Dwight D. Eisenhower appoints General Lauris Norstad Supreme Allied Commander Europe
November: President Dwight D. Eisenhower reelected President of the United States
November: Senator Warren G. Magnuson reelected, U.S. Senate, Washington State
January: The Eisenhower Doctrine
February 19: Marine Jackson (mother) dies
May 27: Jackson delivers address to U.S. Senate, “Ballistic Seapower-Fourth Dimension of Warfare"
June: The USS Nautilus (SSN-571) arrives in the Pacific Northwest
October 4: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik
November: Jackson serves as U.S. delegate, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Parliamentarians Conference (1957-1983)
Jackson co-sponsors Wilderness Preservation System Bill (Wilderness bill of 1964)
Henry Kissinger publishes Nuclear Weapons and American Foreign Policy
Albert Sabin develops the oral polio vaccine
July 7: President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act
July 29: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) established
September: Jackson defeats Democratic candidate, Alice Franklin Bryant, in the primaries
November 4: Jackson is reelected to U.S. Senate for a second term, defeating Republican opponent William B. Bantz
November 17: “Presenting the Report of the NATO Parliamentarians Conference. Scientific and Technical Committee” [Should link to text?]; North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Parliamentarians Conference, Paris, France
Jackson co-sponsors the National Defense Education Act of 1958
Noreen Lydday Potts of Everett, Washington joins the Jackson staff
Hanford begins production on the N Reactor, Benton County, Richland, Washington
John Day Dam opens
John Kenneth Galbraith publishes The Affluent Society
Second Term
January 3: Alaska is granted statehood
January: Jackson begins his second term, U.S. Senate, Washington State
March 18: President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Hawaii Statehood Admissions Act
Jackson is appointed chairman, U.S. Senate, Committee on Government Operations, Subcommittee on National Policy Machinery
June: Jackson proposes an investigation into the national policy-making machinery, U.S. Senate, Government Operations Committee, Subcommittee on National Policy Machinery (also called the Jackson Subcommittee)
July 24: Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev engage in a public debate during the American National Exhibition, Moscow, Russia
August 21: Hawaii is granted statehood
September: Nikita Khrushchev visits the United States
October: Jackson visits Antarctica
Jackson visits the Soviet Union
Theodore H. White begins the series, The Making of the President
February 1: Black college student sit-ins, Greensboro, North Carolina
May: Soviet Union shoots down a U-2 reconnaissance plane
July 13-14: Senator John F. Kennedy is nominated for President by the Democratic National Party, selects Governor Lyndon B. Johnson for his Vice Presidential running mate and appoints Jackson chairman, Democratic National Committee, Democratic National Convention, Los Angeles, California
July 14: Jackson endorses Senator John F. Kennedy for President of the United States and nominates Lyndon B. Johnson for Vice President, Democratic National Convention, Los Angeles, California
November: John F. Kennedy elected President of the United States
Jackson chairs hearings, U.S. Senate, Government Operations Committee, National Policy Machinery Subcommittee (1960-1961)
January: John F. Kennedy inaugurated 35th President of the United States
January 4: Jackson meets Senator Clinton P. Anderson's receptionist, Helen Hardin, from Albuquerque, New Mexico,and they begin dating
March: John Salter is appointed Deputy Director, Agency for International Development
April 15-19: Bay of Pigs invasion, Cuba
June: Vienna Summit, Vienna, Austria
August: The Soviet Union erects the Berlin Wall
November 16: Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn dies
November 29: Jackson and Helen Hardin announce their engagement [iv]
December 1: Jackson resigns as chairman, Democratic National Committee
December 16: Jackson and Helen Hardin marry, Central Methodist Church, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and visit Hawaii
S. Sterling Munro joins the Jackson staff as Administrative Assistant (1961-1977)
Jackson visits Vietnam
April 21-October 21: Century 21: The Seattle World's Fair, Seattle, Washington
September: Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring
September-October: Cuban missile crisis
October: President John F. Kennedy attends a Silver Anniversary dinner for Senator Warren G. Magnuson, Seattle, Washington
February 20: John H. Glenn, Jr. makes first U.S. orbital flight
November: TFX (F-111) contract controversy
December: Jackson visits Vietnam
Henry and Helen Jackson move to 2500 Q Street NW, Washington, D.C.
William Appleman Williams rereleases The Tragedy of American Diplomacy
January: Jackson is appointed chairman (1963-1977), U.S. Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee
February 7: Anna Marie (daughter) born
February-November: Investigation into the TFX (F-111) contract, U.S. Senate Government Operations Committee, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
March-June: Buddhist uprising, Da Nang-Hue, Vietnam
August 5: The United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union sign the Limited Test Ban Treaty, Moscow, Russia
September 26: President John F. Kennedy visits the Hanford facilities, Benton County, Richland, Washington
November 1: Assassination of President Ngô Đình Diệm, Saigon, Vietnam
November 22: Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Dallas, Texas and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson inaugurated 36th President of the United States
November: Jackson is reelected to U.S. Senate for a third term, defeating Republican opponent Lloyd J. Andrews
November: President Lyndon B. Johnson reelected to a second term
August: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
September: Jackson co-sponsors the Wilderness Areas bill
September 3: President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Wilderness Areas Act (S.4) and the Land and Water Conservation Fund bill (H.R.3846), Rose Garden, White House, Washington , D.C.
September: The Ohanapecosh Visitor Center opens, Mount Rainier National Park, Longmire, Washington Civil Rights Act
Third Term
January: Jackson begins his third term, U.S. Senate, Washington State
March: First teach-in in protest of the Vietnam War, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
July 22: Water Resources Planning Act
July 30: President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Medicare Amendment, White House, Washington, D.C.
August: Watts riots, Los Angeles, California
December: Jackson visits Hong Kong and Vietnam
Jackson publishes Fact, Fiction and National Security
February: Henry and Helen Hardin Jackson move to 4934 Rockwood Parkway, Washington, D.C.
March 10: President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Cape Lookout National Seashore bill, White House, Washington, D.C.
April: Peter Jackson (son) born
April 8: Hanford Generating Plant completed
May 16: The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, China (1966-1969)
October: The Black Panther Party is founded, Oakland, California
November 15: Jackson delivers a speech, The Will to Stay the Course; North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Parliamentarians Conference, Paris, France
December: Jackson visits Vietnam
December: Senator J. William Fulbright publishes The Arrogance of Power
June 5-10: The Six Day War, Israel
June 13: President Lyndon B. Johnson appoints Thurgood Marshall U.S. Supreme Court Justice
June 17: China explodes its first Hydrogen bomb
June: Glassboro Summit Conference, Glassboro, New Jersey
July 12-23: Riots break out in Detroit, Michigan and Newark, New Jersey
September 18: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces U.S. deployment of the Sentinel Program and Fort Lawton in Seattle, Washington is selected as a launch site [vi]
October 21: Student protesters march to the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia
The Jackson family and sisters, Gertrude and Marie Jackson, move to 1703 Grand Avenue, Everett, Washington
April: Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Memphis, Tennessee and student demonstrations on the campus of Columbia University, New York, New York
July 1: President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Non-Proliferation Treaty
August: Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois
Summer: Gertrude (sister) diagnosed with cancer
September 30: Columbia River Basin Project Act [vii]
October 2: President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Redwood and North Cascades National Park bills
October 2: Wild and Scenic Rivers Act and North Cascades National Park established [viii]
November: Richard M. Nixon elected President of the United States
November: Jackson visits West Germany
December: Jackson declines U.S. Secretary of Defense position
Jackson meets Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
January: Richard M. Nixon inaugurated 37th President of the United States
February: Boeing 747 prototype makes its first flight
February: Jackson authors S.1075, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969
February: Gertrude (sister) dies
Spring: Jackson meets Richard N. Perle
Spring: Richard N. Perle appointed to U.S. Senate Committee on Government Operations, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
July 16-20: Apollo 11 Mission
August 6: Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) debates, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C.
November 17: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) (1969-1972)
December: Marie (sister) dies
Kevin Phillips publishes The Emerging Republican Majority
Jackson is awarded the Sierra Club John Muir Award
Jackson selects Richard N. Perle as National Security Advisor (1969-1979)
January 1: President Richard M. Nixon signs National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
Spring: Jackson sponsors Federal Lands for Parks and Recreation Act
March 8: Native American protesters stage sit-in, Fort Lawton, Seattle, Washington
March: Democratic National Committee endorses Carl Maxey for U.S. Senate, Washington State
April 22: Jackson speaks to students and faculty on first Earth Day, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
July 6: Jackson is awarded the Belle W. Baruch Conservation Award, Washington, D.C.
September 15: Jackson defeats Democratic candidate, Carl Maxey, in the primaries
November 3: Jackson is reelected to U.S. Senate for a fourth term, defeating Republican opponent Charles W. Elicker
November: Jackson meets with Prime Minister Golda Meir, Jerusalem, Israel
Jackson visits the Middle East
Ben Wattenberg and Richard M. Scammon publish The Real Majority
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
Fourth Term
January: Jackson begins his fourth term, U.S. Senate, Washington State
August 13: Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) established
August: President Richard M. Nixon issues New Economic Policy [viii]
November 19: Jackson announces candidacy for President of the United States, Caucus Room, Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C.
Jackson sponsors the Alaska Native Claims Act of 1971
Jackson begins authoring legislation establishing the Youth Conservation Corps (YCC)
Jackson visits the Middle East
Jackson named National Father of the Year
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
Pentagon Papers published in The New York Times
March 7-14: New Hampshire and Florida primaries
February 27: President Richard M. Nixon visits China and signs the Shanghai Communiqué
April 4-25 : Wisconsin and Massachusetts primaries
May 15: George C. Wallace assassination attempt, Laurel, Maryland
May 26: President Richard M. Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
May: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)
June 5: Moscow Conference Summit, Moscow, Russia
June 23: Indian Education Act passes (Jackson sponsored)
June: California primary
July 10-13: George McGovern nominated for President by the Democratic National Party, Democratic National Convention, Miami, Florida
July: U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Earl L. Butz, negotiates the sale of U.S. grain to the Soviet Union
September 25: National Conference on Soviet Jewry endorses the Jackson-Vanik Amendment
October 4: Jackson and Ohio Congressman Charles A. Vanik create an amendment to the Trade Reform bill, Jackson-Vanik Amendment
October 30: Jackson endorses George McGovern for President, Seattle Center, Seattle, Washington
Fall: Jackson visits the Middle East
November 2: Richard M. Nixon reelected President of the United States
November-December: Jackson and Helen Hardin Jackson visit Yugoslavia
December 13: House passes the Jackson-Vanik Amendment
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II) (1972-1979)
December: Robert Strauss appointed chairman, Democratic National Committee
December: Ben Wattenberg establishes the Coalition for a Democratic Majority (CDM)
Completion of the Grand Coulee Dam Third Powerhouse, Grand Coulee, Washington
Production work begins on the MX missile
January 14: Jackson meets with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin
September 11-14: U.S. Senate approves the Jackson Amendment to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) I and Andrei Sakharov issues a public letter appealing Congress to pass the Jackson-Vanik Amendment
October 6-26: Arab-Israeli War
October 10: Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigns
October 12: House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford is selected for Vice President
October 17: Oil embargo, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
October: Egypt and Syria launch attack against Israel
November 16: President Richard M. Nixon signs the trans-Alaska Pipeline bill
December: House passes the Jackson-Vanik Amendment
Paris Peace Accords signed, Paris, France
Jackson selected as chairman, U.S. Senate Government Operations Committee, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and Subcommittee on Arms Control (1973-1978)
Energy shortage and oil companies hearings, U.S. Senate Government Operations Committee, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (1973-1975)
Howard Feldman appointed chief counsel, U.S. Senate Government Operations Committee, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Trade Reform Act
Watergate hearings, U.S. Senate
April 13-22: Jackson visits San Juan, Puerto Rico
May 4: Spokane World’s Fair
July 3: Moscow Summit, Moscow, Russia
July: Jackson appoints Robert Keefe campaign manager; Sterling Munro, chief of staff; Walter T. Skallerup, campaign treasurer; Brian Corcoran, national press manager?; Richard Kline, fundraising coordinator
July: Jackson visits China
August 9: President Richard M. Nixon resigns
August 9: Vice President Gerald R. Ford inaugurated 38th President of the United States
December 13-18: U.S. Senate and House approve the Jackson-Vanik Amendment to the Trade Reform Act, and the Stevenson Amendment (Adlai Stevenson, Jr.) is approved by Congress
December: Governor Jimmy Carter announces candidacy for President of the United States
President Gerald R. Ford and Leonid Brezhnev sign the Vladivostok Treaty
Watergate hearings, U.S. Senate
January 3: President Gerald R. Ford signs the Trade Reform Act appended with the Jackson-Vanik Amendment [ix]
February 7: Jackson announces candidacy for President of the United States, National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
March 6: U.S. Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger delivers testimony during hearings, U.S. Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Arms Control
April 30: The Vietnam War ends
July 15: Alexander Solzhenitsyn speaks to a joint session of Congress, U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C. [x]
July 30-August 1: President Gerald R. Ford attends the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) and signs the Helsinki Final Act, Helsinki, Finland
October: Senator Birch Bayh announces candidacy for President of the United States
November 2: President Gerald R. Ford dismisses U.S. Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger
November 20: President Gerald R. Ford appoints Donald H. Rumsfeld U.S. Secretary of Defense
November: Governor George C. Wallace announces candidacy for President of the United States
January 19: Iowa caucus
February 27: New Hampshire primary
March 2-9: : Massachusetts and Florida primaries
March 16-23: Illinois and North Carolina primaries
March: Committee on the Present Danger reestablished
April 6: New York and Wisconsin primaries
April 25: Jimmy Carter and Jackson debate, Issues and Answers, ABC
April 27: Pennsylvania primary
May 1: Jackson announces withdrawal from presidential race, Washington Plaza Hotel, Seattle, Washington
September 3: Viking Lander 2 lands on Mars
November: Jimmy Carter elected President of the United States
November 2: Jackson reelected to U.S. Senate, defeating Republican opponent George M. Brown
Fifth Term
January 7: Senator Mike J. Mansfield retires
January: Jackson begins his fifth term, U.S. Senate, Washington State
January 20: Jimmy Carter inaugurated 39th President of the United States
January: President Jimmy Carter appoints Zbigniew K. Brzezinski to U.S. National Security Advisor, Cyrus Vance to U.S. Secretary of State, and Paul C. Warnke to Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
August 4: U.S. Department of Energy established
September 7: President Jimmy Carter and Omar Torrijos sign the Panama Canal Treaty and Neutrality Treaty [xi]
Opening of the Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center, United Indians of All Tribes, Fort Lawton, Seattle, Washington
Interior and Insular Affairs Committee is renamed Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Jackson serves as chairman, U.S. Senate, Energy and Natural Resources Committee (1977-1980)
January 13: Senator Hubert H. Humphrey dies
January: Iranian revolution begins
February 12-20: Jackson visits China
September 17: Egyptian President Anwar Al Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin sign the Camp David Accords, Frederick County, Maryland
September 29: President Jimmy Carter issues Presidential Directive 41, U.S. Civil Defense Policy [xii]
November: Jackson visits the Middle East, Egypt, Israel
January 1: Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations
January 16: Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi and Empress Farah flee Tehran, Iran for Egypt
February: General Secretary Deng Xiaoping visits the U.S. and Seattle, Washington
March 26: President Anwar Sadat and Prime Minister Menachim Begin sign the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty, Washington, D.C.
March 28: Three Mile Island accident, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
March: President Jimmy Carter appoints Lieutenant General George Seignious Director, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
June 15-18: President Jimmy Carter and Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev sign an arms control agreement ending the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) II, Vienna, Austria
June-July: The Jackson family visits Israel
July: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) II hearings, U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, Arms Control Subcommittee and Foreign Relations Committee
July 15: President Jimmy Carter delivers Crisis of Confidence speech [xiii]
August 7-25: Jackson visits China
November 4: Iranian hostage crisis begins
November 7: Senator Edward M. Kennedy announces candidacy for President of the United States
November 9: U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee approves Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) II treaty
December 20: U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, Arms Control Subcommittee rejects the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) II treaty
December 27: The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan
Arthur Jackson (brother) dies
February: President Jimmy Carter assigns China most favored nation (MFN) status
March: Richard S. Perle leaves the Jackson staff
April 24-25: Iran hostage rescue attempt
April 28: U.S. Secretary of State, Cyrus Vance, resigns
May 18: Eruption of Mt. St. Helens, Washington State
May 22: Jackson delivers speech, "New directions for our party," Cook County Democratic Dinner, Chicago, Illinois
June-July: The Jackson family visits Norway
October: Jackson endorses President Jimmy Carter, Seattle, Washington
November: Ronald R. Reagan elected President of the United States
November: Warren G. Magnuson loses election to Slade Gorton, U.S. Senate, Washington State
December 2: President Jimmy Carter signs the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act
December 11: Jackson visits London, England
Geopolitics of oil hearings, U.S. Senate, Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act
Northwest Power Planning and Conservation Act
January: Ronald R. Reagan inaugurated 40th President of the United States
January 20: Iranian hostage crisis ends
January 21: President Ronald R. Reagan appoints Caspar Weinberger U.S. Secretary of Defense
January: President Ronald R. Reagan appoints Jeane Kirkpatrick ambassador to the United Nations; Richard Perle to assistant secretary of defense; Elliott Abrams to assistant secretary of state for human rights; General Edward Rowny as chief negotiator for Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START)
May: Anna Marie Jackson graduates, Holton Arms School, Bethesda, Maryland
September 25: President Ronald R. Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor U.S. Supreme Court Justice
November 13: Secretary of the Navy John Lehman fires Admiral Hyman G. Rickover
Creation of the Central America Commission, U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Spring: Jackson proposes a Soviet-American Joint Consultation Center
May: President Ronald R. Reagan initiates the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START)
May-June: Boeing 747 – C-5 debate
August 17: Joint Sino-American Communiqué
August: Jackson visits China
September: Jackson defeats Larry Penberthy and King Lysen in the primaries
November 2: Jackson reelected to U.S. Senate, defeating Republican opponent Douglas Jewett
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Sixth Term
January: Jackson begins his sixth term, U.S. Senate, Washington State
April 18: Bombing of U.S. Embassy, Beirut , Lebanon
May: President Ronald R. Reagan signs a bill establishing the Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine
June 17: First test-firing of the MX missile, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California
August: Jackson visits China
September 1: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 shot down by the Soviet Union
September 1: Jackson dies, Everett, Washington
September 1: Governor John Spellman appoints former Governor Daniel Evans to U.S. Senate seat
September 7: Jackson funeral and interment at Evergreen Cemetery, Everett, Washington
September: The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies (JSIS) is established, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
September: The Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine is renamed The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.
October 5:The Henry M. Jackson Foundation is established, Seattle, Washington
October 23: Bombing of U.S. Marine barracks, Beirut, Lebanon
October: President Ronald R. Reagan orders a Trident submarine renamed the USS Henry M. Jackson
References
[iii] Kaufman, Robert. Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000, p. 76-77.
[iv] Ibid., p. 128.
[v] Simon, David. “Chronology of National Missile Defense Programs,” in Council on Foreign Relations. June 1, 2002. Retrieved from: http://www.cfr.org/publication/10443/chronology_of_national_missile_defense_programs.html?breadcrumb=%2Fissue%2F428%2Fmissile_defense. Accessed June 20, 2007.
“Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty Chronology” in Federation of American Scientists. Available from: http://www.fas.org/nuke/control/abmt/chron.htm. Accessed June 21, 2007.
[vi] “Colorado River Basin Project (General Overview)” in Dams, Projects & Powerplants. U.S. Department of the Interior: Bureau of Reclamation. Retrieved from: http://www.usbr.gov/dataweb/html/crbp.html. Accessed June 21, 2007.
[vii] “Wild and Scenic Rivers Act,” in Federal Wildlife and Related Laws Handbook. New Mexico Center for Wildlife Law. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico School of Law. Retrieved from: http://ipl.unm.edu/cwl/fedbook/wildrive.html. Accessed June 21, 2007.
[viii] John Woolley and Gerhard Peters, The American Presidency Project [online]. Santa Barbara, CA: University of California (hosted), Gerhard Peters (database). Available from: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=3115. Accessed June 8, 2007.
[ix] “Saga of the Jackson Amendment,” Time. Monday, January 27, 1975. Available from: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,912750,00.html?iid=chix-sphere. Accessed June 21, 2007.
[x] Senator Ernest F. Hollings authors S.CON.RES.48, “Concurrent resolution to invite Alexander Solzhenitsyn to address a joint meeting of Congress.” Available from: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d094:4:./temp/~bdcPZt::. Accessed June 22, 2007.
[xi] “Panama Canal Treaty of 1977” in U.S. Department of State. Retrieved from: http://www.state.gov/p/wha/rlnks/11936.htm. Accessed June 22,2007.
[xii] PD-41 US Civil Defense Policy. Available from Jimmy Carter Library website. Accessed June 25, 2007 - page since removed..
[xiii] PD-53 National Security Telecommunications Policy. Available from: http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/pd/pd53.pdf. Accessed June 25, 2007.