1972
18 verified events recorded in 1972.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |