September 8 is the anniversary of The Pardon of Richard Nixon in 1974. In an astoundingly blatant act of corruption, the person Richard Nixon had appointed as his vice president gave him a full pardon after he resigned in disgrace over his illegal dealings.
It was found that he had used a various number of three letter agencies to investigate and harass his political opponents (as discussed previously. Often through illegal means such as wiretaps and burglaries. Anticommunist propaganda of the time heavily emphasised state espionage and conspiracy as being traits of the evil spectre of communism. So there was a great public outcry demanding his prosecution. With the pardon of Nixon, the corrupt US regime solidly proved that the will of the people did not matter.
Today, the government has made it clear that they never actually cared about the crimes either. The government espionage was greatly expanded and made into an established secret police division of its own. This time when the whistle was blown, the whistleblower was treated as a traitor for exposing the government's lies.
Current US presidents are also still free to break their laws as they please, and US presidents are still free to conspire against their enemies in the land of the free.
Honourable Mentions:
In 1892, US schoolchildren started being forced to recite The Pledge of Allegiance, with the idea of indoctrinating them into nationalism from a young age.
In 1950, the US signed in the Defense Production Act, in order to bypass the free market to purchase weapons for indiscriminate bombing of Korea. Odd that they felt the need to resort to a command economy in order to protect their vaunted free markets from dangerous socialist ideas, don't you think?