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A leading voice of this cause was a member of Scaife's League to Save Carthage -- Lewis Powell, the future Supreme Court justice who was then an eminent corporate lawyer from Richmond, Virginia. And at just that moment, Powell was in search of deep-pocketed donors to bankroll his project. [circa 1971]
Powell was the author of a brilliant battle plan detailing how conservative business interests could reclaim American politics...all summer long, he clipped magazines and newspaper articles documenting the political threat. He was particularly preoccupied with Ralph Nader...
That summer, two months before Powell was nominated by Richard Nixon to the Supreme Court, his neighbor Eugene Syndor Jr., a close friend and director of the US Chamber of Commerce, who shared Powell's political upset, commissioned Powell to write a special memorandum for the business league. In August, Powell delivered a seething memo that was nothing less than a counterrevolutionary call to arms for corporate America, warning the business community that its very survival was at stake if it didn't get politically organized and fight back. The five-thousand-word memo was marked "confidential" and titled "Attack on American Free Enterprise System." A virtual anti-Communist Manifesto, it laid out a blueprint for a conservative takeover...Powell's memo transformed corporate America into a "vanguard."