1971
16 verified events recorded in 1971.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |