| 1979-12-27 | Soviet Afghanistan Invasion Positions BCCI for CIA Covert Operations Expansion
4 src Central Intelligence Agency |
| confirmed |
| 1979-10-06 | Volcker Shock - Federal Reserve Raises Rates to 20%, Recession Begins
3 src Paul Volcker · Jimmy Carter |
| confirmed |
| 1979-06-01 | Falwell and Weyrich Found Moral Majority, Fusing Religious Right with Corporate Agenda
3 src Jerry Falwell · Paul Weyrich · Richard Viguerie · Howard Phillips · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1979-06-01 | Moral Majority Founded - Corporate Agenda Masked by Religious Cultural Warfare
3 src Paul Weyrich · Jerry Falwell · Richard Viguerie · Howard Phillips · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1979-01-08 | Vietnam Veterans File Agent Orange Class Action Lawsuit Against Dow Chemical and Monsanto - Corporations Deny Liability Despite Evidence
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1979-01-02 | Federation for American Immigration Reform Founded, Launching Modern Nativist Movement Infrastructure
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1979-01-01 | ALEC Begins Tobacco Industry Partnership for Legislative Influence
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council |
| confirmed |
| 1979-01-01 | Heritage Foundation Begins "Mandate for Leadership" Preparation for Reagan Transition
2 src Edwin Feulner · Heritage Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 1979-01-01 | Supreme Court Adopts Bork's "Consumer Welfare Standard," Transforming Antitrust Law
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Robert Bork |
| confirmed |
| 1979-01-01 | Wage Stagnation Era Begins: Productivity-Pay Gap Opens as Union Power Collapses
3 src American workers · Federal Reserve · Business Roundtable |
| confirmed |
| 1978-12-31 | Corporate Lobbying Presence Quintuples in Washington DC
3 src U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Lewis Powell |
| confirmed |
| 1978-11-09 | Natural Gas Policy Act Begins Energy Sector Deregulation
3 src Jimmy Carter |
| confirmed |
| 1978-11-07 | Business Roundtable Coordinates First Major Corporate PAC Election Strategy
4 src Business Roundtable · Republican Party |
| confirmed |
| 1978-10-25 | Carter Signs Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Creating FISC, Nominal Constraint on Domestic Surveillance
3 src Jimmy Carter · Ted Kennedy · Church Committee · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1978-10-25 | Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act as Executive-Power Bargain: Statutory Authorization in Exchange for Court Review Becomes Template
3 src Jimmy Carter · Edward Kennedy · Frank Church · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1978-10-24 | Carter Signs Airline Deregulation Act, Neoliberal Turn Begins
5 src Jimmy Carter · Edward Kennedy · Stephen Breyer |
| confirmed |
| 1978-10-05 | Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy Established, Framework for 1986 Reform
3 src Jimmy Carter · U.S. Congress · Alan Simpson |
| confirmed |
| 1978-08-22 | IRS Tightens Private School Tax Exemption Rules Catalyzing Religious Right Political Mobilization
3 src Internal Revenue Service · Paul Weyrich · Richard Viguerie | | confirmed |
| 1978-08-11 | American Indian Religious Freedom Act Passes Without Enforcement Mechanisms, Proving Ineffective at Protecting Sacred Sites
3 src U.S. Congress · Jimmy Carter · Bureau of Indian Affairs · Native American Tribes |
| confirmed |
| 1978-08-07 | Love Canal Disaster Exposes Decades of Corporate Toxic Dumping Cover-Up
3 src Jimmy Carter |
| confirmed |
| 1978-06-22 | Labor Law Reform Act Killed by Filibuster After Business Roundtable Lobbying Blitz
3 src Business Roundtable · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · National Association of Manufacturers · AFL-CIO · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1978-06-06 | Proposition 13 Passes, California Tax Revolt Spreads Nationally
5 src | | confirmed |
| 1978-04-26 | Powell delivers Bellotti decision establishing corporate First Amendment rights
3 src Lewis F. Powell Jr. · Supreme Court of the United States · Corporate interests |
| confirmed |
| 1978-03-06 | DOJ Returns to Court: Trump Violated 1975 Discrimination Settlement
3 src Donald Trump · Fred Trump · Roy Cohn |
| confirmed |
| 1978-01-01 | Clark Clifford and Robert Altman Begin Representing BCCI in US Operations
3 src Agha Hasan Abedi |
| confirmed |
| 1978-01-01 | Jude Wanniski Publishes "The Way the World Works," Supply-Side Economics Manifesto
2 src Jude Wanniski · Arthur Laffer · Wall Street Journal |
| confirmed |
| 1978-01-01 | Manhattan Institute Founded by CIA Director William Casey - Intelligence-Policy Crossover
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1978-01-01 | Robert Bork Publishes "The Antitrust Paradox," Revolutionizing Corporate Power
3 src Robert Bork · Aaron Director · Chicago School of Economics |
| confirmed |
| 1977-12-28 | International Emergency Economic Powers Act: Carter-Era Statute Becomes Principal Modern Instrument of Unilateral Economic Action
3 src Jimmy Carter · Clement Zablocki · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1977-10-20 | Carl Bernstein Exposes CIA Media Network in Rolling Stone: 400+ Journalists Secretly Served Intelligence Agency
3 src CIA · William Colby · George H.W. Bush |
| confirmed |
| 1977-10-12 | Community Reinvestment Act Passed to Combat Redlining, Banking Industry Resists
3 src Jimmy Carter · American Bankers Association · Federal Reserve · FDIC |
| confirmed |
| 1977-08-31 | J.P. Stevens Found Guilty of Massive NLRB Violations, Creates Corporate Union-Busting Playbook
3 src National Labor Relations Board |
| confirmed |
| 1977-08-12 | Weinberger v. Equifax: Fifth Circuit Guts Anti-Pinkerton Act, Clearing Path for Private Intelligence Industry
5 src Government Accountability Office |
| confirmed |
| 1977-07-01 | Exxon Internal Climate Research Program Confirms Human-Caused Global Warming
3 src ExxonMobil |
| confirmed |
| 1977-06-23 | Supreme Court Decides GTE Sylvania, First Major Chicago School Antitrust Victory
2 src U.S. Supreme Court · Aaron Director · Chicago School of Economics |
| confirmed |
| 1977-05-21 | Harlon Carter Leads NRA Cincinnati Revolt Transforming Gun Lobby into Political Weapon | | |
| 1977-01-01 | American Enterprise Institute Budget Surges to $10 Million - Think Tank Infrastructure Expansion
3 src American Enterprise Institute · Gerald Ford · John M. Olin Foundation · Robert Bork |
| confirmed |
| 1977-01-01 | American Enterprise Institute Organizational Profile: Transforming Industry Lobby into 'Scholarly' Think Tank
4 src American Enterprise Institute · Dick Cheney · Paul Ryan · ExxonMobil |
| confirmed |
| 1977-01-01 | BCCI Establishes Partnership with Pakistan's Zia ul-Haq Military Regime
6 src Agha Hasan Abedi |
| confirmed |
| 1977-01-01 | Charles Koch Founds Cato Institute with $500,000, Expanding Libertarian Infrastructure
3 src Charles Koch · Murray Rothbard · Koch Industries |
| confirmed |
| 1977-01-01 | Department of Justice Announces Abandonment of Robinson-Patman Act Enforcement, Adopting Chicago School Critique
4 src Department of Justice · Robert Bork · Federal Trade Commission · Chicago School of Economics |
| confirmed |
| 1977-01-01 | Edwin Feulner Becomes Heritage Foundation President, Beginning 36-Year Tenure Building Conservative Policy Infrastructure
4 src Edwin Feulner · Heritage Foundation · Paul Weyrich · Richard Scaife · +2 | | confirmed |
| 1977-01-01 | Jack Kemp and William Roth Introduce Tax Cut Bill, Translating Supply-Side Theory to Legislation
2 src Jack Kemp · William Roth · Arthur Laffer · Jude Wanniski |
| confirmed |
| 1977-01-01 | Milton Friedman Begins Development of "Free to Choose" PBS Series on Free Markets
4 src Milton Friedman |
| confirmed |
| 1977-01-01 | National Association of Business PACs Founded to Coordinate Corporate Political Money
2 src |
| confirmed |
| 1977-01-01 | Oracle Corporation Founded to Build CIA Database, Named After CIA Project
3 src Larry Ellison · Central Intelligence Agency · Oracle |
| confirmed |
| 1977-01-01 | William E. Simon Becomes Olin Foundation President, Launching Strategic Conservative Funding
2 src John M. Olin · John M. Olin Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 1976-12-31 | Corporate PAC Explosion: 433 New Corporate PACs Formed in Post-Buckley Era
4 src Corporate America · Business Roundtable · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Federal Election Commission |
| confirmed |
| 1976-09-30 | Hart-Scott-Rodino Act Requires Pre-Merger Notification, Last Major Antitrust Strengthening Before Reagan Dismantlement
4 src Gerald Ford · Federal Trade Commission · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1976-09-14 | National Emergencies Act: Congress Attempts to Catalogue and Constrain 470 Executive Emergency Powers
3 src Frank Church · Gerald Ford · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1976-06-23 | Supreme Court Miller Decision Holds Bank Records Have No Fourth Amendment Protection, Creates Third-Party Doctrine
3 src Lewis Powell · William Rehnquist · Thurgood Marshall |
| confirmed |
| 1976-05-24 | Powell Expands Corporate Speech Rights in Virginia State Board of Pharmacy Decision
3 src Lewis F. Powell Jr. · Warren Burger · Byron White · Thurgood Marshall | | confirmed |
| 1976-05-19 | Senate Creates Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, First Institutional Legislative Oversight of U.S. Intelligence Agencies
3 src U.S. Senate · Frank Church · Howard Baker | | confirmed |
| 1976-04-20 | Supreme Court Allows Metropolitan-Wide Housing Desegregation Remedy
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development | | confirmed |
| 1976-03-10 | Attorney General Levi Issues First Written Guidelines Limiting FBI Domestic Security Investigations
2 src Gerald Ford · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 1976-02-18 | Ford EO 11905: Executive-Self-Regulation of Intelligence Establishes Assassination Ban Without Statute
3 src Gerald Ford · George H.W. Bush · Henry Kissinger · U.S. Intelligence Community |
| confirmed |
| 1976-02-18 | Ford Executive Order 11905 Bans Political Assassination: Executive Self-Regulation Substitutes for Legislative Reform
3 src Gerald Ford · CIA · Church Committee |
| confirmed |
| 1976-01-30 | Supreme Court Rules Money Is Speech in Buckley v. Valeo
7 src U.S. Supreme Court · Lewis F. Powell Jr. · Byron White | | confirmed |
| 1976-01-27 | Reagan Launches 'Welfare Queen' Attack Using Racially Coded Chicago Fraud Story
4 src Ronald Reagan | | confirmed |
| 1976-01-01 | Francis Schaeffer's "How Should We Then Live?" Convinces Evangelicals That Political Engagement Is Christian Duty
3 src C. Everett Koop · Jerry Falwell · Tim LaHaye |
| confirmed |
| 1976-01-01 | Richard Mellon Scaife Becomes Heritage Foundation's Primary Donor
3 src Richard Mellon Scaife · Heritage Foundation · Joseph Coors · Edwin Meese III |
| confirmed |
| 1976-01-01 | Tobacco Industry 'Operation Berkshire' and global coordination to resist smoking regulation
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1975-11-20 | Church Committee Interim Report on Assassination Plots Documents CIA Foreign-Leader Targeting
2 src Frank Church · Church Committee · Central Intelligence Agency · William Colby · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1975-10-29 | Ford Refuses NYC Bailout, "Drop Dead" Headline, Austerity Era Begins
3 src Gerald Ford · Alan Greenspan · Donald Rumsfeld |
| confirmed |
| 1975-08-06 | Voting Rights Act Extension of 1975: Expands Protection to Language Minorities Including Latino, Asian, and Native American Voters
3 src Gerald Ford · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1975-07-16 | Pike Committee Investigation: House Intelligence Findings Suppressed After CIA and White House Obstruction
3 src CIA · Gerald Ford · Henry Kissinger · CBS |
| confirmed |
| 1975-06-10 | Trump Settles Housing Discrimination Case Without Admitting Guilt
3 src Donald Trump · Fred Trump · Roy Cohn |
| confirmed |
| 1975-04-28 | Church Committee Exposes Psychological Manipulation Techniques in Government Operations
4 src Frank Church · Central Intelligence Agency · Intelligence Community · National Security Agency |
| confirmed |
| 1975-04-26 | Church Committee Exposes Systemic Intelligence Agency Abuses
3 src Frank Church · Central Intelligence Agency · National Security Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| confirmed |
| 1975-04-22 | Church Committee: Landmark Democratic Resistance Framework Against Intelligence Abuses
3 src Frank Church · U.S. Senate · Central Intelligence Agency · National Security Agency · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1975-04-14 | Federal Election Commission Begins Operations, Institutionalizing Corporate PAC Framework
2 src Federal Election Commission · Gerald Ford |
| confirmed |
| 1975-02-21 | Nixon Top Aides Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Mitchell Sentenced to Prison for Watergate Cover-up
3 src H.R. Haldeman · John Ehrlichman · John Sirica | | confirmed |
| 1975-01-27 | Church Committee begins exposing illegal intelligence activities
4 src Frank Church · Church Committee · Seymour Hersh · Central Intelligence Agency · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 1975-01-04 | Ford Creates Rockefeller Commission on CIA Activities to Pre-Empt Congressional Investigation
3 src Gerald Ford · Dick Cheney · Donald Rumsfeld | | confirmed |
| 1975-01-01 | ALEC Registers as Federal Nonprofit and Moves to Washington D.C.
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Paul Weyrich |
| confirmed |
| 1975-01-01 | Paul Weyrich Becomes First Director of ALEC, Consolidating State Legislative Strategy
3 src Paul Weyrich · American Legislative Exchange Council · Henry Hyde |
| confirmed |
| 1975-01-01 | Richard Viguerie Perfects Direct Mail Fundraising - Conservative Grassroots Infrastructure
3 src Richard Viguerie · Paul Weyrich · Howard Phillips · Terry Dolan · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1974-12-30 | Hughes-Ryan Amendment: Congress Requires Presidential Findings for Covert Action, Ends Plausible-Deniability Era
3 src Gerald Ford · Central Intelligence Agency · William Colby · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1974-12-22 | Hersh NYT Expose of CIA Domestic Surveillance Triggers Church, Pike, Rockefeller Investigations
3 src Seymour Hersh · New York Times · William Colby · Gerald Ford · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1974-12-01 | Arthur Laffer Sketches Curve on Napkin with Rumsfeld and Cheney, Creating Supply-Side Icon
2 src Arthur Laffer · Jude Wanniski · Donald Rumsfeld · Dick Cheney |
| confirmed |
| 1974-10-28 | Equal Credit Opportunity Act and RESPA Pass After Industry Lobbying Weakens Enforcement
3 src U.S. Congress · Gerald Ford · American Bankers Association · Federal Reserve |
| confirmed |
| 1974-10-15 | FECA Amendments Enable Corporate PAC Formation, Triggering 1,600% Growth
2 src U.S. Congress · Federal Election Commission |
| confirmed |
| 1974-09-12 | Boston Busing Crisis Erupts, Northern White Resistance to Desegregation
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1974-09-08 | Ford Issues Full Pardon to Nixon for All Watergate Crimes, Ensures No Criminal Accountability
3 src Gerald Ford · Richard Nixon | | confirmed |
| 1974-09-02 | ERISA Enacted, Establishing Federal Preemption of State Employee Benefit Regulation
3 src U.S. Congress · Gerald Ford |
| confirmed |
| 1974-09-02 | ERISA Pension Law Creates Framework for Corporate Benefit Cuts
5 src Gerald Ford | | confirmed |
| 1974-08-09 | Richard Nixon Becomes First U.S. President to Resign, Gerald Ford Sworn In as 38th President
3 src Richard Nixon · Gerald Ford | | confirmed |
| 1974-08-05 | Nixon Releases Smoking Gun Tape Under Supreme Court Order, Political Support Collapses Completely
3 src Richard Nixon · H.R. Haldeman · House Judiciary Committee · Republican Party | | confirmed |
| 1974-07-27 | House Judiciary Committee Approves Three Articles of Impeachment Against President Nixon
3 src House Judiciary Committee · Richard Nixon | | confirmed |
| 1974-07-25 | Milliken v. Bradley - Supreme Court Blocks Cross-District School Desegregation, Entrenches White Flight
3 src Warren Burger · Thurgood Marshall · U.S. Supreme Court · NAACP Legal Defense Fund |
| confirmed |
| 1974-07-24 | Supreme Court Rules 8-0 in United States v. Nixon: President Must Surrender Tapes
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Warren Burger · Richard Nixon · Leon Jaworski · +2 | | confirmed |
| 1974-07-12 | Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act: Congress Strips Nixon's Unilateral Authority to Withhold Appropriated Funds
3 src Richard Nixon · U.S. Congress · Sam Ervin · Edmund Muskie |
| confirmed |
| 1974-07-01 | William Simon Establishes Petrodollar Recycling System
3 src Richard Nixon · Henry Kissinger · U.S. Treasury · Saudi Arabia | | confirmed |
| 1974-06-21 | Chuck Colson Pleads Guilty to Obstruction of Justice in Ellsberg Case, Serves Seven Months
3 src Chuck Colson · Daniel Ellsberg · E. Howard Hunt · John Ehrlichman | | confirmed |
| 1974-06-08 | US-Saudi Economic Commission Agreement Signed
3 src Henry Kissinger · Richard Nixon · Saudi Arabia · United States · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1974-06-01 | Nixon Executive-Privilege Theory (1973-74) Establishes Doctrinal Infrastructure Cited by Every Subsequent Presidency
3 src Richard Nixon · Archibald Cox · Leon Jaworski · John Dean · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1974-01-01 | American Enterprise Institute Establishes Center for Health Policy Research
2 src American Enterprise Institute |
| confirmed |
| 1974-01-01 | Richard Butler Establishes Aryan Nations Compound in Hayden Lake, Idaho
11 src Ku Klux Klan | | confirmed |
| 1974-01-01 | Richard Scaife Begins Major Funding of Heritage Foundation as Primary Donor
3 src Richard Mellon Scaife · Heritage Foundation · Paul Weyrich · Edwin Feulner |
| confirmed |
| 1974-01-01 | Weyrich Founds Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, Expanding Infrastructure
2 src Paul Weyrich · Joseph Coors |
| confirmed |