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Today is the anniversary of the worst memo in history

Robert Reich
Aug 23, 2025
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Friends,

Today marks the start of the slide that ended in the catastrophe of Trump.

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. wrote a memo to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

It was titled “Attack On American Free Enterprise System” and it …

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