Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Reagan fulfilled a campaign pledge by nominating Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female Supreme Court justice.

(Reagan Presidential Library) Notably, it was Jimmy Carter who pounced on that pledge as creating a threshold gender criteria. Others noted at the time that Reagan was simply pledging that he would ...

The candidate for president was in difficult straits and so he made a promise that would change history. If elected, he said, he would shatter more than 200 years of precedent and nominate a Black ...

The candidate for president was in difficult straits and so he made a promise that would change history. If elected, he said, he would shatter more than 200 years of precedent and nominate a Black ...