How did we get here?

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38. The Powell Memorandum....

from Washington and Lee University
https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/powellmemo/
[* by me]

"Powell Memorandum: Attack On American Free Enterprise System
On August 23, 1971, less than two months before he was nominated to serve as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Lewis F. Powell, Jr. mailed a confidential memorandum to his friend Eugene B. Sydnor, Jr., Chair of the Education Committee of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The memo was titled Attack On American Free Enterprise System and outlined ways in which business should defend and counter attack against a "broad attack" from *"disquieting voices"."

* usually referring to Academia

I was18. Something I missed back then, what with dealing w Nixon in office,Vietnam War etc