| 1973-12-29 | HMO Act Enables For-Profit Healthcare Expansion
3 src Richard Nixon · John Ehrlichman · Edward Kennedy | | confirmed |
| 1973-12-28 | Endangered Species Act Signed, Industry Groups Immediately Begin Weakening Campaign
3 src Richard Nixon · American Farm Bureau Federation |
| confirmed |
| 1973-11-08 | U.S. Chamber of Commerce Board Adopts Powell Memo Task Force Recommendations
2 src U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Lewis F. Powell Jr. |
| confirmed |
| 1973-11-07 | War Powers Resolution Enacted Over Nixon Veto: Congress Attempts to Reclaim Authority After Cambodia Bombing
3 src Richard Nixon · U.S. Congress · Clement Zablocki |
| confirmed |
| 1973-11-01 | Leon Jaworski Appointed as Special Prosecutor to Replace Fired Archibald Cox
3 src 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
3 src Richard Nixon · Archibald Cox · Robert Bork · Federal Bureau of Investigation | | confirmed |
| 1973-10-15 | DOJ Sues Trump and Father for Systemic Housing Discrimination
3 src Donald Trump · Fred Trump · Roy Cohn |
| confirmed |
| 1973-10-01 | Trilateral Commission Founded by David Rockefeller
3 src Jimmy Carter |
| confirmed |
| 1973-09-11 | Chicago Boys Initiate Radical Economic Shock Therapy Under Pinochet's Dictatorship
3 src Milton Friedman |
| confirmed |
| 1973-09-11 | CIA-Backed Coup Overthrows Salvador Allende in Chile: Corporate and Intelligence Interests Align to Destroy Democracy
3 src CIA · Richard Nixon · Henry Kissinger |
| confirmed |
| 1973-09-03 | Bunker Hill Smelter Fire Leads to Worst Corporate Lead Poisoning in U.S. History
4 src U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
| confirmed |
| 1973-09-01 | ALEC Organizational Profile: Corporate Vote-Buying Mechanism Disguised as Legislative Council
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Paul Weyrich · Henry Hyde |
| confirmed |
| 1973-09-01 | American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) Founded as Systematic State-Level Corporate Influence Platform
3 src Paul Weyrich · Henry Hyde |
| confirmed |
| 1973-07-16 | Alexander Butterfield Reveals Nixon White House Secret Taping System in Bombshell Testimony
3 src Richard Nixon · H.R. Haldeman · Senate Watergate Committee | | confirmed |
| 1973-07-16 | Butterfield Reveals White House Taping System: Nixon's Executive-Privilege Refusals Trigger Defining Separation-of-Powers Crisis
2 src Richard Nixon · Sam Ervin · Archibald Cox |
| confirmed |
| 1973-06-25 | John Dean Testifies to Senate Watergate Committee: "Cancer Growing on the Presidency"
6 src John Dean · Richard Nixon · H.R. Haldeman · John Ehrlichman · +2 | | confirmed |
| 1973-06-25 | Opus Dei: Canonical Recognition and Unique Ecclesiastical Status
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1973-05-17 | Senate Watergate Committee Begins Televised Hearings, Exposing Presidential Crimes to Public
3 src 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
3 src William Colby · Central Intelligence Agency · Richard Helms | | confirmed |
| 1973-05-08 | New York Passes Rockefeller Drug Laws: Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Template for Mass Incarceration
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1973-03-21 | San Antonio v. Rodriguez - Supreme Court Upholds Property Tax School Funding, Entrenches Inequality
3 src Lewis Powell · Thurgood Marshall · U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 1973-03-19 | Judge Sirica Uses Maximum Sentences to Break Watergate Cover-up, McCord Writes Explosive Letter
3 src John Sirica · James W. McCord Jr. · G. Gordon Liddy · John Dean | | confirmed |
| 1973-02-16 | Heritage Foundation Founded by Conservative Activists and Business Leaders
3 src Paul Weyrich · Edwin Feulner · Joseph Coors · Heritage Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 1973-02-16 | Heritage Foundation Organizational Profile: Conservative Policy Infrastructure and Corporate Capture Mechanism
4 src 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
3 src G. Gordon Liddy · James W. McCord Jr. · E. Howard Hunt · John Sirica | | confirmed |
| 1973-01-22 | Supreme Court Decides Roe v. Wade, Triggering Conservative Backlash and Mobilization
2 src U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 1973-01-01 | ALEC Founded to Coordinate Corporate Model Legislation Across State Legislatures
3 src 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
4 src Agha Hasan Abedi |
| confirmed |
| 1973-01-01 | Paul Weyrich Begins Official Coalition Meetings, Coordinating Conservative Movement
3 src 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
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1972-12-01 | Business Roundtable Established as CEO Coordination Body for Corporate Political Power
3 src John Connally · Arthur Burns · U.S. Treasury · Federal Reserve |
| confirmed |
| 1972-11-01 | Eagle Forum Founded as Permanent Conservative Infrastructure for 'Pro-Family' Organizing
5 src Phyllis Schlafly · Eagle Forum | | confirmed |
| 1972-11-01 | National Association of Manufacturers Relocates to Washington D.C. in Corporate Mobilization
2 src 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
3 src Richard Nixon · Edmund Muskie · American Petroleum Institute · Chemical Manufacturers Association · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1972-09-28 | Powell Memo Leaked to Public, Exposing Corporate Institutional Capture Blueprint
3 src Lewis F. Powell Jr. · U.S. Chamber of Commerce |
| confirmed |
| 1972-09-01 | BCCI Founded with Bank of America Partnership and Regulatory Evasion Structure
4 src Agha Hasan Abedi · Bank of America |
| confirmed |
| 1972-09-01 | CREEP Dirty Tricks Campaign Exposed: Segretti Orchestrates Political Sabotage Including Canuck Letter
7 src Edmund Muskie | | confirmed |
| 1972-08-22 | Case-Zablocki Act: Congress Requires Reporting of Executive Agreements, Partial Reassertion of Senate Treaty Power
3 src Clement Zablocki · Richard Nixon · Henry Kissinger · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1972-06-23 | Smoking Gun Tape: Nixon Orders CIA to Block FBI Watergate Investigation
3 src Richard Nixon · H.R. Haldeman · Central Intelligence Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation | | confirmed |
| 1972-06-19 | Supreme Court Keith Decision Requires Warrants for Domestic Security Surveillance, Reserves Foreign Intelligence Question
3 src Lewis Powell · Department of Justice · John Mitchell |
| confirmed |
| 1972-06-17 | Five Burglars Arrested Breaking into Democratic National Committee Headquarters at Watergate Complex
3 src James W. McCord Jr. · E. Howard Hunt · G. Gordon Liddy · Federal Bureau of Investigation | | confirmed |
| 1972-05-02 | J. Edgar Hoover Dies in Office After 48 Years, Ending Longest FBI Directorship and Enabling Oversight Possibility
3 src J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Richard Nixon | | confirmed |
| 1972-03-30 | Omaha Sun Exposes Boys Town's $209 Million Secret Fortune While Claiming Poverty in Fundraising Appeals
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1972-03-03 | Lordstown Strike Against GM Speedups Exposes New Worker Alienation
3 src Ted Kennedy | | confirmed |
| 1972-03-01 | Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) Founded
4 src Agha Hasan Abedi · Bank of America |
| confirmed |
| 1972-02-01 | Phyllis Schlafly Launches STOP ERA Campaign, Pioneering Anti-Feminist Infrastructure
3 src Phyllis Schlafly · Catholic Church | | confirmed |
| 1972-01-07 | Lewis Powell Sworn in as Supreme Court Justice, Begins Implementing Corporate Blueprint
3 src 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
4 src Jules Kroll · Kroll Associates · Central Intelligence Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1971-10-22 | Nixon Nominates Lewis Powell to Supreme Court Two Months After Corporate Blueprint Memo
3 src 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
4 src Richard Nixon · Lewis F. Powell Jr. · U.S. Senate | | confirmed |
| 1971-09-04 | Nixon White House Enemies List Drafted by Dean, Weaponizing Federal Agencies Against Political Opponents
3 src Richard Nixon · John Dean · Internal Revenue Service |
| confirmed |
| 1971-09-03 | White House Plumbers Break Into Daniel Ellsberg Psychiatrist Office Seeking Pentagon Papers Dirt
3 src E. Howard Hunt · G. Gordon Liddy · Chuck Colson · John Ehrlichman · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1971-08-23 | Lewis Powell Writes Landmark Memo Blueprinting Corporate Institutional Capture Strategy
5 src Lewis F. Powell Jr. · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Nixon Administration | | confirmed |
| 1971-08-15 | Nixon Ends Gold Standard, Bretton Woods System Collapses
3 src 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
3 src 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
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · New York Times · Washington Post · Daniel Ellsberg · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1971-06-17 | Nixon Declares Drug Abuse "Public Enemy Number One"
3 src Richard Nixon · John Ehrlichman | | confirmed |
| 1971-06-13 | Pentagon Papers Published Revealing Systematic Government Deception About Vietnam War
6 src Daniel Ellsberg · New York Times · Washington Post · Richard Nixon · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1971-04-28 | Hoover Abolishes Formal COINTELPRO Operations After Media Expose, But Informal Operations Continue
3 src J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI |
| confirmed |
| 1971-04-03 | Nixon Reverses DOD Military Abortion Policy; Buchanan Memo Documents Abortion as Catholic Voter Strategy
5 src Richard Nixon |
| confirmed |
| 1971-03-29 | William Calley Convicted of My Lai Murders - Only Officer Prosecuted Despite Widespread Command Responsibility - Serves 3.5 Years House Arrest
3 src Lieutenant William Calley · Richard Nixon | | confirmed |
| 1971-03-24 | Citizens' Commission Distributes COINTELPRO Files to Press, NBC Reports FBI Surveillance Operations
3 src Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI · NBC News · Washington Post |
| confirmed |
| 1971-03-08 | COINTELPRO Exposed - FBI's Secret War on Civil Rights and Dissent Revealed
3 src 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
3 src 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
7 src | | confirmed |
| 1970-12-31 | Clean Air Act of 1970 Creates EPA and National Air Quality Standards Despite Industry Opposition
3 src Richard Nixon · Edmund Muskie · American Petroleum Institute · National Coal Association · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1970-12-29 | Occupational Safety and Health Act Creates OSHA After Decades of Industry Opposition to Workplace Safety
3 src 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
5 src Richard Nixon |
| confirmed |
| 1970-09-13 | Milton Friedman's 'The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits' Establishes Shareholder Primacy Doctrine
3 src Milton Friedman |
| confirmed |
| 1970-07-14 | Nixon Approves Huston Plan Authorizing Illegal Surveillance, Rescinded After Hoover Objects
3 src Richard Nixon · J. Edgar Hoover · Richard Helms · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 1970-07-10 | IRS Adopts Non-Discrimination Policy for Private Schools After Court Order Targeting Segregation Academies
3 src Internal Revenue Service · Federal Courts | | confirmed |
| 1970-06-22 | Voting Rights Act Extension of 1970: Nationwide Literacy Test Ban and Voting Age Lowered to 18
3 src Richard Nixon · U.S. Congress · Emanuel Celler · John Mitchell |
| confirmed |
| 1970-04-22 | First Earth Day Mobilizes 20 Million Americans, Launches Modern Environmental Movement
3 src Richard Nixon |
| confirmed |
| 1970-01-01 | "A Plan For Putting the GOP on TV News" — the Nixon-era blueprint for Fox News
4 src Roger Ailes · H.R. Haldeman · Richard Nixon · Nixon Administration · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1970-01-01 | John Olin Activates Foundation to Fund Law and Economics Programs at Elite Universities
3 src John M. Olin · John M. Olin Foundation | | confirmed |
| 1970-01-01 | Maxwell Establishes Eastern Bloc Scientific Literature Publishing Network
3 src Robert Maxwell |
| confirmed |
| 1970-01-01 | Richard Scaife Acquires Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Building Conservative Media Infrastructure
3 src Richard Scaife |
| confirmed |
| 1970-01-01 | Richard Viguerie Pioneers Computerized Direct Mail, Revolutionizing Conservative Fundraising
3 src Richard Viguerie · Paul Weyrich · Howard Phillips · Terry Dolan |
| confirmed |