In the late 1970s, during the administration of President Jimmy Carter, and under the guidance of his economic advisor Alfred Kahn (who had specialized in research on deregulation, and was appointed CAB Chairman), the CAB became the target of the early deregulation movement, and its dissolution was one of the most conspicuous pioneering events of the movement.[8][2][9] The Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 specified that the CAB would eventually be disestablished - the first federal regulatory regime, since the 1930s, to be totally dismantled[9][8] - and this happened on January 1, 1985.[10] The remaining tasks were transferred to the Secretary of Transportation except for a few going to the U.S. Postal Service.[5]