Nixon Legacy Forum: Launching the Telecommunications Revolution

Launching the Telecommunications Revolution: The Story of the Office of Telecommunications Policy This 40th Nixon Legacy Forum will explore the little-known and less-appreciated White House Office of Telecommunications Policy, created by Reorganization Plan Number One in 1970, in eliminating regulation and introducing market-based opportunities to the American telecommunications industry in the 1970s-- paving the way for satellite and cable television. PANELISTS Christopher DeMuth, Moderator. Staff Assistant to the President, (1969-1970). Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs under President Reagan (1981-1984). President of the American Enterprise Institute (1986-2008). Currently Distinguished Fellow in American Thought at the Heritage Foundation. Henry Goldberg, Successor to Antonin Scalia as General Counsel of OTP. Founder and Senior Partner at Goldberg, Godless, Wiener and Wright. Widely regarded for many decades as the dean of telecom lawyers in Was