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The Powell Memorandum

Report Lewis F. Powell Jr. Strategy 1971

The primary document at the start of the opponents’ fifty-year arc: a confidential memo to the US Chamber of Commerce proposing sustained, coordinated, well-funded investment in courts, campuses, media and think tanks to shift the deep assumptions of American life. Read today it’s a deep-disposition strategy — Told, Lived and Built zones, patient capital, adaptive vehicles, fixed objectives — written by the other side, and executed. Evidence for the power section and the honest counterweight to “strategy is dead.”

[source_status: widely archived; Washington & Lee's law school hosts the standard copy — confirm link before citing]

Also see The House That Hayek Built

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