The Powell Memo: A Call-to-Arms for Corporations

[elleng]

September 14, 2012

In this excerpt from Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer — and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, authors Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson explain the significance of the Powell Memorandum, a call-to-arms for American corporations written by Virginia lawyer (and future U.S. Supreme Court justice) Lewis Powell to a neighbor working with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

http://billmoyers.com/content/the-powell-memo-a-call-to-arms-for-corporations/

[truebluegreen]

1. Not just a "future Supreme Court justice":

That rat bastard Nixon rewarded Lewis Powell with his SCOTUS seat because of his good work in that memo.

Isn't it amazing how many of the now-exploding land mines in American society were laid in that era?