Posthumous

February 7: President Ronald R. Reagan orders the withdrawal of U.S. forces, Bierut, Lebanon

June 26: President Ronald R. Reagan presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom award to Helen Hardin Jackson in honor of the late Senator Jackson, Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C. [xiv]

July 3: Passage of the Washington Wilderness Act of 1984 designating an area of the Wenatchee and Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forests in Washington State as the Henry M. Jackson Wilderness [xv]

September 4: Dedication of the Henry M. Jackson Federal Building, Seattle, Washington

October 6: The Jackson family attends the launching ceremony of the Trident submarine, USS Henry M. Jackson, Groton, Connecticut [xvi]

November: Helen Jackson unveils a bust of Jackson, Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C.

December 8: General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and President Ronald R. Reagan sign the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, Washington, D.C.

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[xiv] Kaufman, Robert G. Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000, p. 435-437.

[xv] Library of Congress THOMAS. Available from: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d098:SN00837:@@@L&summ2=m&. Accessed June 11, 2007. Senate Bill S.837.

[xvi] Kaufman, Robert G. Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics. Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2000, p. 436