First female justice of the US supreme court who cast the deciding vote in many of its most controversial cases
November 2023
Rosalynn Carter obituary
US first lady who played a significant role in supporting her husband Jimmy’s political career from Georgia to the White House
March 2023
From the Guardian archive
Final episode of M*A*S*H attracts record number of viewers – archive, 1983
1 March 1983: The long-running US television comedy set during the Korean war airs for the last time
December 2021
Bob Dole obituary
Longstanding Republican leader in the US Senate who lost the 1996 presidential election to Bill Clinton
October 2021
Colin Powell obituary
Former US secretary of state and highly decorated army officer who made the case for the 2003 invasion of Iraq
June 2021
Donald Rumsfeld obituary
Defence secretary who took the US military into the Iraq war with a business approach to planning that had disastrous consequences
April 2021
Walter Mondale obituary
US vice-president in the late 1970s whose bid for the White House in 1984 ended in dismal defeat as Reagan won by a landslide
August 2020
Brent Scowcroft obituary
US national security adviser whose long career took in the evacuation of Saigon, Richard Nixon’s visit to China and the end of the cold war
January 2020
From the Guardian archive
Israel rules on what constitutes a Jew – archive, 1970
24 January 1970: For the first time, the law of the state differs from that of the Rabbinate in the most sensitive area of the Israeli consciousness
July 2019
Ross Perot obituary
Independent candidate in the US presidential elections of 1992 and 1996 who founded his own party
May 2019
From the Guardian archive
Russians cite threats for Olympic Games boycott - archive, 1984
9 May 1984: East Europeans, except Romanians, expected to follow Soviet lead
April 2018
Barbara Bush obituary
US first lady – the wife of one president and the mother of a second – was a robust campaigner for the Republican cause and fierce defender of her family
March 2018
Letter: Ian Aitken obituary
Harold Jackson writes: An interruption to my nightly discussions with Ian Aitken
July 2017
Letter: Barry Norman obituary
Harold Jackson writes: The death of Barry Norman allows me to correct a compliment he once paid me on Radio 4
December 2016
John Glenn obituary
Glenn was the first US astronaut to orbit the Earth, and later became one of his country’s most effective senators
March 2016
Nancy Reagan obituary
Hollywood actor often cast as the devoted wife, she became an influential US first lady
March 2015
Letter: Frank Platt was baffled by my digital gibberish
Harold Jackson writes: Frank Platt was appointed production director of the Guardian in 1985
October 2014
From the Guardian archive
From the archive, 29 October 1979: Russian way with the mathematical travelling salesman
Originally published in the Guardian on 29 October 1979: Unknown Soviet mathematician LG Khachian offers a solution to a problem that has the computing world baffled
August 2014
From the Guardian archive
From the archive, 14 August 1984: Storm as Reagan bombing joke misfires
