The Lever

Let's imagine for a minute, it's January,

1973.

You're in your car driving home after a long day.

Let's say it's a wood-paneled Buick.

You're stressed about work.

You're scanning through radio stations, but all of the news coming out of Washington is bad.

Nixon, days away from his second inauguration, is trying everything he can to distance himself from a growing scandal.

Senate Democrats have chosen North Carolina Sam Irvin to investigate the Watergate bugging case.

The committee would have full subpoena power and a half million dollar budget.

There are new protests every day.

It's exhausting.

So you flip the radio over to the AM dial.

You find W-A-R-M-590, a station that serves northern Pennsylvania and parts of

New York. Mr. Businessman, have you read the Powell Memorandum? You're thinking the Powell

Memorandum? What the hell is that? It just might be the most important single document

regarding the free enterprise system ever written.

And who is this guy they're talking about, Lewis Powell?

The same Louis F. Powell, who is now a member justice of the Supreme Court of the United States,

prepared an in-depth study entitled Attack on American Free Enterprise System.

Okay, so this is a recreation, but we based it on the actual word-for-word

transcripts of a series of radio editorials that W-A-R-M-590 presented on the topic of...

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