1970s
The 1970s contain 176 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973-12-28 | Endangered Species Act Signed, Industry Groups Immediately Begin Weakening Campaign Richard Nixon · American Mining Congress · National Forest Products Association · American Farm Bureau Federation · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1973-11-08 | U.S. Chamber of Commerce Board Adopts Powell Memo Task Force Recommendations U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Eugene B. Sydnor Jr. · Lewis F. Powell Jr. | confirmed | |
| 1973-11-07 | War Powers Resolution Enacted Over Nixon Veto: Congress Attempts to Reclaim Authority After Cambodia Bombing Richard Nixon · U.S. Congress · Jacob Javits · Clement Zablocki · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1973-11-01 | Leon Jaworski Appointed as Special Prosecutor to Replace Fired Archibald Cox Leon Jaworski · Robert Bork · Richard Nixon · Archibald Cox | confirmed | |
| 1973-10-20 | Saturday Night Massacre: Nixon Fires Special Prosecutor Cox, Richardson and Ruckelshaus Resign in Protest Richard Nixon · Archibald Cox · Elliot Richardson · William Ruckelshaus · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1973-10-15 | DOJ Sues Trump and Father for Systemic Housing Discrimination Donald Trump · Fred Trump · Roy Cohn | confirmed | |
| 1973-10-01 | Trilateral Commission Founded by David Rockefeller David Rockefeller · Zbigniew Brzezinski · Jimmy Carter · Chase Manhattan Bank · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1973-09-11 | Chicago Boys Initiate Radical Economic Shock Therapy Under Pinochet's Dictatorship Milton Friedman · Arnold Harberger · Augusto Pinochet · The Chicago Boys · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1973-09-11 | CIA-Backed Coup Overthrows Salvador Allende in Chile: Corporate and Intelligence Interests Align to Destroy Democracy CIA · Richard Nixon · Henry Kissinger · Salvador Allende · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1973-09-03 | Bunker Hill Smelter Fire Leads to Worst Corporate Lead Poisoning in U.S. History Gulf Resources & Chemical Corp. · Bunker Hill Mining & Metallurgical Complex · Idaho Department of Health · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | confirmed | |
| 1973-09-01 | ALEC Organizational Profile: Corporate Vote-Buying Mechanism Disguised as Legislative Council American Legislative Exchange Council · Paul Weyrich · Henry Hyde · Lou Barnett · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1973-09-01 | American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) Founded as Systematic State-Level Corporate Influence Platform Paul Weyrich · Henry Hyde · Lou Barnett | confirmed | |
| 1973-07-16 | Alexander Butterfield Reveals Nixon White House Secret Taping System in Bombshell Testimony Alexander Butterfield · Richard Nixon · H.R. Haldeman · Donald Sanders · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1973-07-16 | Butterfield Reveals White House Taping System: Nixon's Executive-Privilege Refusals Trigger Defining Separation-of-Powers Crisis Alexander Butterfield · Richard Nixon · Sam Ervin · Fred Thompson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1973-06-25 | John Dean Testifies to Senate Watergate Committee: "Cancer Growing on the Presidency" John Dean · Richard Nixon · H.R. Haldeman · John Ehrlichman · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1973-06-25 | Opus Dei: Canonical Recognition and Unique Ecclesiastical Status Pope Pius XII · Pope John Paul II · Josemaria Escriva · Opus Dei | confirmed | |
| 1973-05-17 | Senate Watergate Committee Begins Televised Hearings, Exposing Presidential Crimes to Public Sam Ervin · Howard Baker · Senate Watergate Committee · Richard Nixon | confirmed | |
| 1973-05-09 | Acting DCI Schlesinger Orders CIA "Family Jewels" Internal Inventory of Illegal Activities James R. Schlesinger · William Colby · Central Intelligence Agency · Richard Helms | confirmed | |
| 1973-05-08 | New York Passes Rockefeller Drug Laws: Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Template for Mass Incarceration Nelson Rockefeller · New York State Legislature | confirmed | |
| 1973-03-21 | San Antonio v. Rodriguez - Supreme Court Upholds Property Tax School Funding, Entrenches Inequality Justice Lewis Powell · Justice Thurgood Marshall · Demetrio Rodriguez · Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1973-03-19 | Judge Sirica Uses Maximum Sentences to Break Watergate Cover-up, McCord Writes Explosive Letter John Sirica · James W. McCord Jr. · G. Gordon Liddy · John Dean · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1973-02-16 | Heritage Foundation Founded by Conservative Activists and Business Leaders Paul Weyrich · Edwin Feulner · Joseph Coors · Heritage Foundation | confirmed | |
| 1973-02-16 | Heritage Foundation Organizational Profile: Conservative Policy Infrastructure and Corporate Capture Mechanism Heritage Foundation · Paul Weyrich · Edwin Feulner · Joseph Coors · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1973-01-30 | G. Gordon Liddy and James McCord Convicted in Watergate Burglary Trial, Five Others Plead Guilty G. Gordon Liddy · James W. McCord Jr. · Bernard Barker · Virgilio Gonzalez · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1973-01-22 | Supreme Court Decides Roe v. Wade, Triggering Conservative Backlash and Mobilization U.S. Supreme Court · Nellie Gray | confirmed | |
| 1973-01-01 | ALEC Founded to Coordinate Corporate Model Legislation Across State Legislatures Paul Weyrich · Henry Hyde · American Legislative Exchange Council · Heritage Foundation · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1973-01-01 | BCCI Begins Rapid International Expansion Strategy with 19 Branches Across Five Countries Agha Hasan Abedi · BCCI management · Swaleh Naqvi · international regulators | confirmed | |
| 1973-01-01 | Paul Weyrich Begins Official Coalition Meetings, Coordinating Conservative Movement Paul Weyrich · Edwin Feulner · Joseph Coors · Richard Viguerie | confirmed | |
| 1973-01-01 | R.J. Rushdoony Publishes "The Institutes of Biblical Law": Intellectual Foundation for Christian Dominionism Rousas John Rushdoony · Gary North · Chalcedon Foundation | confirmed | |
| 1972-12-01 | Business Roundtable Established as CEO Coordination Body for Corporate Political Power John Connally · Arthur Burns · Reginald Jones · John Harper · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1972-11-01 | Eagle Forum Founded as Permanent Conservative Infrastructure for 'Pro-Family' Organizing Phyllis Schlafly · Eagle Forum · New Right | confirmed | |
| 1972-11-01 | National Association of Manufacturers Relocates to Washington D.C. in Corporate Mobilization National Association of Manufacturers · U.S. Chamber of Commerce | confirmed | |
| 1972-10-18 | Clean Water Act Passes Over Nixon Veto After Industry Fails to Block Strong Provisions Richard Nixon · Edmund Muskie · American Petroleum Institute · Chemical Manufacturers Association · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1972-09-28 | Powell Memo Leaked to Public, Exposing Corporate Institutional Capture Blueprint Jack Anderson · Lewis F. Powell Jr. · U.S. Chamber of Commerce | confirmed | |
| 1972-09-01 | BCCI Founded with Bank of America Partnership and Regulatory Evasion Structure Agha Hasan Abedi · Bank of America · Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan · Abu Dhabi · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1972-09-01 | CREEP Dirty Tricks Campaign Exposed: Segretti Orchestrates Political Sabotage Including Canuck Letter Donald Segretti · Dwight L. Chapin · Ken W. Clawson · Herbert Kalmbach · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1972-08-22 | Case-Zablocki Act: Congress Requires Reporting of Executive Agreements, Partial Reassertion of Senate Treaty Power Clifford Case · Clement Zablocki · Richard Nixon · Henry Kissinger · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1972-06-23 | Smoking Gun Tape: Nixon Orders CIA to Block FBI Watergate Investigation Richard Nixon · H.R. Haldeman · Vernon Walters · L. Patrick Gray · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1972-06-19 | Supreme Court Keith Decision Requires Warrants for Domestic Security Surveillance, Reserves Foreign Intelligence Question Lewis Powell · Damon Keith · White Panther Party · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1972-06-17 | Five Burglars Arrested Breaking into Democratic National Committee Headquarters at Watergate Complex James W. McCord Jr. · E. Howard Hunt · G. Gordon Liddy · Bernard Barker · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1972-05-02 | J. Edgar Hoover Dies in Office After 48 Years, Ending Longest FBI Directorship and Enabling Oversight Possibility J. Edgar Hoover · L. Patrick Gray · Helen Gandy · Clyde Tolson · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1972-03-30 | Omaha Sun Exposes Boys Town's $209 Million Secret Fortune While Claiming Poverty in Fundraising Appeals Boys Town · Warren Buffett · Paul Williams · Stanford Lipsey · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1972-03-03 | Lordstown Strike Against GM Speedups Exposes New Worker Alienation United Auto Workers Local 1112 · General Motors Assembly Division · General Motors Corporation · Senator Ted Kennedy | confirmed | |
| 1972-03-01 | Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) Founded Agha Hasan Abedi · Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan · Bank of America | confirmed | |
| 1972-02-01 | Phyllis Schlafly Launches STOP ERA Campaign, Pioneering Anti-Feminist Infrastructure Phyllis Schlafly · STOP ERA · Catholic Church · Evangelical Christians · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1972-01-07 | Lewis Powell Sworn in as Supreme Court Justice, Begins Implementing Corporate Blueprint Lewis F. Powell Jr. · Richard Nixon · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Senate | confirmed | |
| 1972-01-01 | Jules Kroll founds innovative private intelligence firm Kroll Associates Jules Kroll · Kroll Associates · Central Intelligence Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1971-10-22 | Nixon Nominates Lewis Powell to Supreme Court Two Months After Corporate Blueprint Memo Richard Nixon · Lewis F. Powell Jr. · John Mitchell · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1971-10-21 | Nixon nominates Lewis Powell to Supreme Court two months after corporate blueprint memo Richard Nixon · Lewis F. Powell Jr. · U.S. Senate · William H. Rehnquist | confirmed | |
| 1971-09-04 | Nixon White House Enemies List Drafted by Dean, Weaponizing Federal Agencies Against Political Opponents Richard Nixon · John Dean · Charles Colson · H. R. Haldeman · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1971-09-03 | White House Plumbers Break Into Daniel Ellsberg Psychiatrist Office Seeking Pentagon Papers Dirt E. Howard Hunt · G. Gordon Liddy · Chuck Colson · John Ehrlichman · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1971-08-23 | Lewis Powell Writes Landmark Memo Blueprinting Corporate Institutional Capture Strategy Lewis F. Powell Jr. · Eugene B. Sydnor Jr. · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Nixon Administration | confirmed | |
| 1971-08-15 | Nixon Ends Gold Standard, Bretton Woods System Collapses Richard Nixon · John Connally · Paul Volcker · Arthur Burns | confirmed | |
| 1971-08-15 | Nixon's New Economic Policy: Unilateral Price Controls, Gold-Window Closure, and 10% Import Surcharge Demonstrate Peak Imperial Presidency Richard Nixon · John Connally · Arthur Burns · Paul Volcker · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1971-06-30 | Supreme Court Rules 6-3 for Press Freedom in Pentagon Papers Case - Rejects Nixon Administration Prior Restraint Attempt U.S. Supreme Court · New York Times · Washington Post · Daniel Ellsberg · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1971-06-17 | Nixon Declares Drug Abuse "Public Enemy Number One" Richard Nixon · John Ehrlichman | confirmed | |
| 1971-06-13 | Pentagon Papers Published Revealing Systematic Government Deception About Vietnam War Daniel Ellsberg · New York Times · Washington Post · President Richard Nixon · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1971-04-28 | Hoover Abolishes Formal COINTELPRO Operations After Media Expose, But Informal Operations Continue J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI | confirmed | |
| 1971-03-29 | William Calley Convicted of My Lai Murders - Only Officer Prosecuted Despite Widespread Command Responsibility - Serves 3.5 Years House Arrest Lieutenant William Calley · President Richard Nixon · Secretary of the Army Howard Callaway · Lieutenant General William Peers | confirmed | |
| 1971-03-24 | Citizens' Commission Distributes COINTELPRO Files to Press, NBC Reports FBI Surveillance Operations Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI · NBC News · Washington Post · Betty Medsger · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1971-03-08 | COINTELPRO Exposed - FBI's Secret War on Civil Rights and Dissent Revealed Federal Bureau of Investigation · J. Edgar Hoover · Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI | confirmed | |
| 1971-01-01 | Corporate Lobbying Expansion Begins, Growing From 175 to 2,500 Firms by 1982 U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Corporate America | confirmed | |
| 1971-01-01 | Oregon Passes Nation's First Forest Practices Act, Drafted by Timber Industry to Preempt Federal Regulation Oregon Legislature · Tom McCall · Oregon timber industry · Oregon Department of Forestry | confirmed | |
| 1970-12-31 | Clean Air Act of 1970 Creates EPA and National Air Quality Standards Despite Industry Opposition President Richard Nixon · Senator Edmund Muskie · American Petroleum Institute · National Coal Association · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1970-12-29 | Occupational Safety and Health Act Creates OSHA After Decades of Industry Opposition to Workplace Safety President Richard Nixon · U.S. Congress · AFL-CIO · National Association of Manufacturers · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1970-12-02 | Nixon Creates Environmental Protection Agency Consolidating Federal Environmental Authority President Richard Nixon · William Ruckelshaus · Council on Environmental Quality | confirmed | |
| 1970-09-13 | Milton Friedman's 'The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits' Establishes Shareholder Primacy Doctrine Milton Friedman · Chicago School economists | confirmed | |
| 1970-07-14 | Nixon Approves Huston Plan Authorizing Illegal Surveillance, Rescinded After Hoover Objects Richard Nixon · Tom Charles Huston · J. Edgar Hoover · Richard Helms · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1970-07-10 | IRS Adopts Non-Discrimination Policy for Private Schools After Court Order Targeting Segregation Academies Internal Revenue Service · Federal Courts · Civil rights organizations · Bob Jones University | confirmed | |
| 1970-06-22 | Voting Rights Act Extension of 1970: Nationwide Literacy Test Ban and Voting Age Lowered to 18 Richard Nixon · U.S. Congress · Emanuel Celler · Attorney General John Mitchell | confirmed | |
| 1970-04-22 | First Earth Day Mobilizes 20 Million Americans, Launches Modern Environmental Movement Senator Gaylord Nelson · Denis Hayes · Environmental Action · President Richard Nixon | confirmed | |
| 1970-01-01 | John Olin Activates Foundation to Fund Law and Economics Programs at Elite Universities John M. Olin · John M. Olin Foundation · University of Chicago Law School | confirmed | |
| 1970-01-01 | Maxwell Establishes Eastern Bloc Scientific Literature Publishing Network Robert Maxwell · Pergamon Press · Eastern Bloc governments · Soviet publishers | confirmed | |
| 1970-01-01 | Richard Scaife Acquires Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Building Conservative Media Infrastructure Richard Scaife · Pittsburgh Tribune-Review · Scaife Foundations | confirmed | |
| 1970-01-01 | Richard Viguerie Pioneers Computerized Direct Mail, Revolutionizing Conservative Fundraising Richard Viguerie · Paul Weyrich · Howard Phillips · Terry Dolan | confirmed | |
| 1970-01-01 | Roger Ailes Creates Plan for Nixon's "GOP TV" Pro-Administration Network Roger Ailes · Richard Nixon · Nixon Administration · Joseph Coors | confirmed |