Announcing the nomination
This draft press release from President Ronald Reagan’s administration announces the nomination of Sandra Day O’Connor to become the first woman Justice of the...
Geneva, 1985
President Ronald Reagan handwrote this letter on November 28, 1985. In it, he expresses his desire for a more constructive relationship to Mikhail Gorbachev, General...
Independence for the National Archives
Signed by President Ronald Reagan on October 14, 1984, Public Law 98-497 established an independent National Archives and Records Administration on April 1, 1985....
Keeping his promise
During Ronald Reagan’s 1980 campaign for President, he promised to nominate a woman for the Supreme Court. President Reagan followed through on this pledge on...
Letter from Kelli Middlestead
Kelli Middlestead, a second grader at Franklin School in Burlingame, California, asked the Alaskan Regional Director of Fish and Wildlife Service to clean up the...
President Reagan's first State of the Union message
In his first State of the Union message, delivered on January 26, 1982, President Ronald Reagan reminded Americans that we “don't have to turn to our history books...
Reagan and Gorbachev in Geneva
President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, Geneva, Switzerland.