| 1973-03-21 | San Antonio v. Rodriguez - Supreme Court Upholds Property Tax School Funding, Entrenches Inequality Justice Lewis Powell · Justice Thurgood Marshall · Demetrio Rodriguez · +2 | 5 |
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| 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 · +2 | 5 | |
| 1973-02-16 | Heritage Foundation Founded by Conservative Activists and Business Leaders Paul Weyrich · Edwin Feulner · Joseph Coors · +1 | 4 |
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| 1973-02-16 | Heritage Foundation Organizational Profile: Conservative Policy Infrastructure and Corporate Capture Mechanism Heritage Foundation · Paul Weyrich · Edwin Feulner · +5 | 8 |
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| 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 · +5 | 8 | |
| 1973-01-22 | Supreme Court Decides Roe v. Wade, Triggering Conservative Backlash and Mobilization U.S. Supreme Court · Nellie Gray | 2 |
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| 1973-01-01 | ALEC Founded to Coordinate Corporate Model Legislation Across State Legislatures Paul Weyrich · Henry Hyde · American Legislative Exchange Council · +3 | 6 |
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| 1973-01-01 | BCCI Begins Rapid International Expansion Strategy with 19 Branches Across Five Countries Agha Hasan Abedi · BCCI management · Swaleh Naqvi · +1 | 4 |
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| 1973-01-01 | Paul Weyrich Begins Official Coalition Meetings, Coordinating Conservative Movement Paul Weyrich · Edwin Feulner · Joseph Coors · +1 | 4 | |
| 1973-01-01 | R.J. Rushdoony Publishes "The Institutes of Biblical Law": Intellectual Foundation for Christian Dominionism Rousas John Rushdoony · Gary North · Chalcedon Foundation | 3 |
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| 1972-12-01 | Business Roundtable Established as CEO Coordination Body for Corporate Political Power John Connally · Arthur Burns · Reginald Jones · +3 | 6 |
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| 1972-11-01 | Eagle Forum Founded as Permanent Conservative Infrastructure for 'Pro-Family' Organizing Phyllis Schlafly · Eagle Forum · New Right | 3 | |
| 1972-11-01 | National Association of Manufacturers Relocates to Washington D.C. in Corporate Mobilization National Association of Manufacturers · U.S. Chamber of Commerce | 2 |
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| 1972-10-18 | Clean Water Act Passes Over Nixon Veto After Industry Fails to Block Strong Provisions Richard Nixon · Edmund Muskie · American Petroleum Institute · +3 | 6 |
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| 1972-09-28 | Powell Memo Leaked to Public, Exposing Corporate Institutional Capture Blueprint Jack Anderson · Lewis F. Powell Jr. · U.S. Chamber of Commerce | 3 |
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| 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 · +3 | 6 |
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| 1972-09-01 | CREEP Dirty Tricks Campaign Exposed: Segretti Orchestrates Political Sabotage Including Canuck Letter Donald Segretti · Dwight L. Chapin · Ken W. Clawson · +3 | 6 | |
| 1972-08-22 | Case-Zablocki Act: Congress Requires Reporting of Executive Agreements, Partial Reassertion of Senate Treaty Power Clifford Case · Clement Zablocki · Richard Nixon · +2 | 5 |
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| 1972-06-23 | Smoking Gun Tape: Nixon Orders CIA to Block FBI Watergate Investigation Richard Nixon · H.R. Haldeman · Vernon Walters · +3 | 6 | |
| 1972-06-19 | Supreme Court Keith Decision Requires Warrants for Domestic Security Surveillance, Reserves Foreign Intelligence Question Lewis Powell · Damon Keith · White Panther Party · +2 | 5 |
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| 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 · +4 | 7 | |
| 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 · +3 | 6 | |
| 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 · +3 | 6 |
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| 1972-03-03 | Lordstown Strike Against GM Speedups Exposes New Worker Alienation United Auto Workers Local 1112 · General Motors Assembly Division · General Motors Corporation · +1 | 4 | |
| 1972-03-01 | Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) Founded Agha Hasan Abedi · Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan · Bank of America | 3 |
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| 1972-02-01 | Phyllis Schlafly Launches STOP ERA Campaign, Pioneering Anti-Feminist Infrastructure Phyllis Schlafly · STOP ERA · Catholic Church · +2 | 5 | |
| 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 · +1 | 4 |
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| 1972-01-01 | Jules Kroll founds innovative private intelligence firm Kroll Associates Jules Kroll · Kroll Associates · Central Intelligence Agency · +3 | 6 |
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| 1971-10-22 | Nixon Nominates Lewis Powell to Supreme Court Two Months After Corporate Blueprint Memo Richard Nixon · Lewis F. Powell Jr. · John Mitchell · +2 | 5 |
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| 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 · +1 | 4 | |
| 1971-09-04 | Nixon White House Enemies List Drafted by Dean, Weaponizing Federal Agencies Against Political Opponents Richard Nixon · John Dean · Charles Colson · +2 | 5 |
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| 1971-09-03 | White House Plumbers Break Into Daniel Ellsberg Psychiatrist Office Seeking Pentagon Papers Dirt E. Howard Hunt · G. Gordon Liddy · Chuck Colson · +4 | 7 | |
| 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 · +1 | 4 | |
| 1971-08-15 | Nixon Ends Gold Standard, Bretton Woods System Collapses Richard Nixon · John Connally · Paul Volcker · +1 | 4 | |
| 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 · +2 | 5 |
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| 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 · +3 | 6 |
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| 1971-06-17 | Nixon Declares Drug Abuse "Public Enemy Number One" Richard Nixon · John Ehrlichman | 2 | |
| 1971-06-13 | Pentagon Papers Published Revealing Systematic Government Deception About Vietnam War Daniel Ellsberg · New York Times · Washington Post · +4 | 7 |
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| 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 | 3 |
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| 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 · +1 | 4 | |
| 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 · +3 | 6 |
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| 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 | 3 |
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| 1971-01-01 | Corporate Lobbying Expansion Begins, Growing From 175 to 2,500 Firms by 1982 U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Corporate America | 2 |
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| 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 · +1 | 4 | |
| 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 · +3 | 6 |
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| 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 · +2 | 5 |
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| 1970-12-02 | Nixon Creates Environmental Protection Agency Consolidating Federal Environmental Authority President Richard Nixon · William Ruckelshaus · Council on Environmental Quality | 3 |
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| 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 | 2 |
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| 1970-07-14 | Nixon Approves Huston Plan Authorizing Illegal Surveillance, Rescinded After Hoover Objects Richard Nixon · Tom Charles Huston · J. Edgar Hoover · +5 | 8 |
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| 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 · +1 | 4 | |
| 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 · +1 | 4 |
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| 1970-04-22 | First Earth Day Mobilizes 20 Million Americans, Launches Modern Environmental Movement Senator Gaylord Nelson · Denis Hayes · Environmental Action · +1 | 4 |
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| 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 | 3 | |
| 1970-01-01 | Maxwell Establishes Eastern Bloc Scientific Literature Publishing Network Robert Maxwell · Pergamon Press · Eastern Bloc governments · +1 | 4 |
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| 1970-01-01 | Richard Scaife Acquires Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Building Conservative Media Infrastructure Richard Scaife · Pittsburgh Tribune-Review · Scaife Foundations | 3 |
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| 1970-01-01 | Richard Viguerie Pioneers Computerized Direct Mail, Revolutionizing Conservative Fundraising Richard Viguerie · Paul Weyrich · Howard Phillips · +1 | 4 |
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| 1970-01-01 | Roger Ailes Creates Plan for Nixon's "GOP TV" Pro-Administration Network Roger Ailes · Richard Nixon · Nixon Administration · +1 | 4 | |
| 1969-12-04 | FBI and Chicago Police Assassinate Black Panther Leader Fred Hampton in Pre-Dawn Raid Fred Hampton · J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +4 | 7 |
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| 1969-12-01 | Draft Lottery Reform Attempts to Address Class Inequality After College Deferments Shield Wealthy from Vietnam Service Selective Service System · U.S. Congress · Congressman Alexander Pirnie | 3 | |
| 1969-11-12 | Seymour Hersh Exposes My Lai Massacre Cover-Up After Army Conceals Atrocity for 20 Months - Wins Pulitzer Prize Journalist Seymour Hersh · Whistleblower Ronald Ridenhour · Lieutenant William Calley · +2 | 5 |
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| 1969-07-17 | Nixon Administration Articulates Comprehensive Executive-Supremacy Doctrine: Impoundment, Secret Bombing, Pocket Vetoes, Surveillance Richard Nixon · John Mitchell · Henry Kissinger · +3 | 6 |
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| 1969-05-09 | Kissinger Initiates Wiretapping of 17 Journalists and NSC Staff After Hersh Cambodia Leak Richard Nixon · Henry Kissinger · Alexander Haig · +3 | 6 | |
| 1969-03-18 | Nixon and Kissinger Launch Secret Illegal Bombing Campaign Against Cambodia - Operation Menu Kills 150,000-500,000 Civilians President Richard Nixon · National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger · Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird · +3 | 6 |
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| 1969-01-01 | Construction Users Anti-Inflation Roundtable Founded by Roger Blough to Break Construction Unions Roger Blough · Construction Users Anti-Inflation Roundtable · U.S. Steel · +5 | 8 | |
| 1968-11-05 | Nixon Wins Presidency Using Southern Strategy Based on Racial Resentment Richard Nixon · Kevin Phillips · H.R. Haldeman · +2 | 5 | |
| 1968-10-22 | Nixon Campaign Sabotages Vietnam Peace Talks Through Anna Chennault to Win Election - Johnson Calls It Treason Richard Nixon · Anna Chennault · H.R. Haldeman · +4 | 7 | |
| 1968-08-01 | Robert Maxwell's Secret KGB Meeting Coincides with Czechoslovakia Invasion Planning Robert Maxwell · Yuri Andropov · KGB · +3 | 6 |
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| 1968-06-17 | Supreme Court Rules 1866 Civil Rights Act Bans Private Housing Discrimination U.S. Supreme Court · Joseph Lee Jones · Alfred H. Mayer Company | 3 | |
| 1968-06-05 | Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated in Los Angeles After California Primary Victory Robert F. Kennedy · Sirhan Sirhan · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +1 | 4 |
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| 1968-04-11 | Fair Housing Act Passes After MLK Assassination Overcomes National Association of Real Estate Boards Decades of Opposition President Lyndon B. Johnson · Martin Luther King Jr. · National Association of Real Estate Boards · +2 | 5 |
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| 1968-04-04 | Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated in Memphis While Supporting Striking Sanitation Workers Martin Luther King Jr. · James Earl Ray · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +1 | 4 | |
| 1968-03-16 | My Lai Massacre - U.S. Soldiers Murder Between 347 and 504 Unarmed Vietnamese Civilians in War Crime Lieutenant William Calley · Captain Ernest Medina · Charlie Company 1st Battalion 20th Infantry Regiment · +2 | 5 |
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| 1968-03-01 | Kerner Commission Report Identifying White Racism as Riot Cause Rejected by LBJ and Ignored Sparking Law-and-Order Backlash Kerner Commission · Governor Otto Kerner Jr. · President Lyndon B. Johnson · +1 | 4 |
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| 1967-12-15 | Age Discrimination in Employment Act Protects Workers Over 40 from Job Discrimination President Lyndon B. Johnson · U.S. Congress · Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz · +1 | 4 |
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| 1967-08-25 | FBI COINTELPRO Launches Black Nationalist Hate Groups Program Targeting Civil Rights Leaders J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Martin Luther King Jr. · +2 | 5 | |
| 1967-08-15 | CIA Launches Operation CHAOS, Systematic Domestic Surveillance of Anti-War Movement Richard Helms · Lyndon B. Johnson · Central Intelligence Agency · +3 | 6 |
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| 1967-08-01 | Phyllis Schlafly Launches Monthly Newsletter, Building Conservative Communications Network Phyllis Schlafly · Eagle Forum · National Federation of Republican Women | 3 | |
| 1967-07-28 | Reagan Signs Mulford Act Gun Control Law With NRA Support to Disarm Black Panthers Armed Patrols Governor Ronald Reagan · Don Mulford · National Rifle Association · +2 | 5 |
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| 1967-07-23 | Detroit Riots Accelerate Pre-Existing White Flight and Corporate Urban Disinvestment Pattern Creating Decades of Economic Decline Detroit Police Department · Michigan National Guard · Insurance Industry · +2 | 5 |
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| 1967-07-01 | NSA Launches Project MINARET Watchlist Program Targeting U.S. Citizens Marshall Carter · Louis Tordella · National Security Agency · +2 | 5 |
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| 1967-03-01 | Ramparts Magazine Exposes CIA Foundation Funding Network, Ending Olin Money Laundering Operation Ramparts Magazine · Central Intelligence Agency · National Student Association · +3 | 6 |
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| 1967-01-01 | Vietnam War Defense Contractor Profiteering Reaches Peak as Congressional Investigations Expose Waste and Corruption RMK-BRJ consortium · Halliburton · Lockheed · +3 | 6 |
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| 1966-10-15 | Black Panther Party Formation in Oakland Triggers Immediate FBI COINTELPRO Surveillance and State Repression Bobby Seale · Huey P. Newton · FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover · +1 | 4 |
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| 1966-09-09 | National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act Passes After GM Harassment of Ralph Nader Backfires President Lyndon B. Johnson · Ralph Nader · General Motors · +2 | 5 | |
| 1966-08-09 | Dorothy Gautreaux Lawsuit Challenges Chicago Public Housing Segregation Dorothy Gautreaux · Chicago Housing Authority · American Civil Liberties Union · +1 | 4 | |
| 1966-07-04 | Freedom of Information Act Signed After Decade of Executive Branch Opposition President Lyndon B. Johnson · Representative John Moss · Senator Edward Long · +1 | 4 | |
| 1966-06-13 | Miranda v. Arizona Decision Requiring Rights Warnings Sparks Law Enforcement Backlash and Conservative Law-and-Order Politics U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice Earl Warren · Richard Nixon · +1 | 4 |
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| 1966-01-01 | Wackenhut Corporation Acquires HUAC Staffer's Files, Claims Dossiers on 4+ Million Americans George Wackenhut · Wackenhut Corporation · Karl Baarslag · +1 | 4 |
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| 1965-11-30 | Ralph Nader Publishes Unsafe at Any Speed Exposing Auto Industry's Deadly Design Choices Ralph Nader · General Motors · Ford Motor Company · +2 | 5 |
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| 1965-10-03 | Immigration and Nationality Act Abolishes National Origins Quota System After Defeating Conservative Opposition President Lyndon B. Johnson · Senator Philip Hart · Representative Emanuel Celler · +3 | 6 |
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| 1965-09-09 | HUD Created as Cabinet Department, Inherits FHA Discriminatory Practices President Lyndon B. Johnson · Robert C. Weaver · National Association of Home Builders · +1 | 4 | |
| 1965-09-08 | Delano Grape Strike Launches UFW Movement, Challenges Agricultural Corporations United Farm Workers · Cesar Chavez · Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee · +1 | 4 | |
| 1965-08-20 | CIA Begins Phung Hoang/Phoenix Program Neutralization Operations Against Viet Cong Infrastructure Central Intelligence Agency · William Colby · Robert Komer · +3 | 6 | |
| 1965-08-06 | Voting Rights Act Signed After Selma Bloody Sunday Defeats Southern Legislative Resistance President Lyndon B. Johnson · Martin Luther King Jr. · John Lewis · +2 | 5 |
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| 1965-07-30 | Medicare and Medicaid Signed Into Law After Defeating Decades of AMA Opposition and Reagan Propaganda Campaign President Lyndon B. Johnson · President Harry S. Truman · American Medical Association · +2 | 5 |
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| 1965-04-11 | Elementary and Secondary Education Act Establishes Federal Role in Education Funding President Lyndon B. Johnson · U.S. Congress · National Education Association | 3 | |
| 1965-03-11 | Reverend James Reeb Dies After White Supremacist Attack in Selma, Killers Acquitted by All-White Jury James Reeb · Elmer Cook · William Stanley Hoggle · +2 | 5 | |
| 1965-03-07 | Alabama State Troopers Attack Voting Rights Marchers on Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma Bloody Sunday John Lewis · Hosea Williams · Alabama State Troopers · +2 | 5 | |
| 1965-03-01 | McNamara and Johnson Administration Begin Systematic Deception About Vietnam War Progress Creating "Credibility Gap" Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara · President Lyndon B. Johnson · Senator J. William Fulbright · +1 | 4 |
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| 1965-01-01 | Bell Helicopter Profits Surge from $150 Million to $2 Billion During Vietnam War - Huey Production Defines "Helicopter War" Bell Helicopter · U.S. Department of Defense · Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association | 3 |
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