HOOVER INSTITUTION

'The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace' is a public policy think tank and library founded by Herbert Hoover at Stanford University, his alma mater. The Institution was founded in 1919 and over time has amassed a huge archive of documentation related to President Hoover, World War I, and World War II, specifically focusing on the perceived root causes of these wars from a particular point of view.
The Hoover Institution mission statement[1] expresses the basic tenets it stands for: representative government, private enterprise, peace, personal freedom, and the safeguards of the American system.
The Hoover Institution is especially influential in the American neoconservative and libertarian movements. Some of its fellows have connections to or positions in the Bush administration. Since 2001, Hoover has published ''Policy Review.''

Contents

Funding

Members

Honorary fellows

Distinguished fellows

Senior fellows

Senior research fellows

Research fellows

Distinguished visiting fellows

Media Fellows

Visiting scholar

Bush visit to Hoover Institution

References

External links

Funding

The Hoover Institution receives much of its funding from private charitable foundations, including many attached to large corporations. A partial list of its recent donors includes:

★ Archer Daniels Midland Foundation

★ ARCO Foundation

★ Boeing-McDonnell Foundation

★ Chrysler Corporation Fund

★ Dean Witter Foundation

★ Exxon Educational Foundation

★ Ford Motor Company Fund

★ General Motors Foundation

★ J.P. Morgan Charitable Trust

★ Merrill Lynch & Company Foundation

★ Procter & Gamble Fund

★ Rockwell International Corporation Trust

★ Transamerica Foundation

Members

The following is a short list of past or present Hoover Institution fellows and scholars.

Honorary fellows

★ Ronald Reagan, (deceased) former President of the United States

★ Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Prize-winning novelist and historian

★ Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

★ Kazuhide Uekusa, Japanese economist, former professor at Waseda University graduate school

Distinguished fellows

★ George P. Shultz, former U.S. Secretary of State

Senior fellows

★ Richard V. Allen, former U.S. National Security Advisor.

★ Timothy Garton Ash, historian, author, columnist

★ Robert Conquest, historian

★ Niall Ferguson, historian

★ Morris P. Fiorina, political scientist and author

★ Victor Davis Hanson, classicist and military historian

★ Eric Hanushek, economist and specialist on education policy

★ Ken Jowitt, historian and author

★ Peter Paret (1988-1993), historian

★ William J. Perry, former U.S. Secretary of Defense

★ Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State

★ Abraham Sofaer, scholar

★ Thomas Sowell, economist and author

★ John B. Taylor, former U.S. Undersecretary of the Treasury for International Affairs

★ Gary S. Becker, 1992 Nobel economics laureate

Senior research fellows

★ Milton Friedman, (deceased) 1976 Nobel Laureate, economist and author

Research fellows

★ Peter Berkowitz, political scientist

★ Dinesh D'Souza, author

★ Abbas Milani, political scientist and author

★ David Satter, former Moscow correspondent of the Financial Times

★ Peter Schweizer, author

★ Shelby Steele, author

★ Antony C. Sutton, economist, historian and author

Distinguished visiting fellows

★ Spencer Abraham, former U.S. Secretary of Energy

★ Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

★ Edwin Meese, former U.S. Attorney General

★ Diane Ravitch, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education

★ Pete Wilson, former Governor of California

Media Fellows

The William and Barbara Edwards Media Fellows Program at the Hoover Institution.^[1]

★ Renata Adler

★ John Batchelor

★ Christopher Hitchens

★ Laura Ingraham

★ Deroy Murdock

★ Andrew Napolitano

★ John Podhoretz

★ John Tierney

★ Sander Vanocur

Visiting scholar

★ Peter Boettke, economist

Bush visit to Hoover Institution

President George W. Bush was invited to meet with fellows at the Hoover Institution on April 20, 2006. However, 400 protestors lined the only road into the central area of the Stanford campus where Hoover is located. Because of a number of protesters lying down in the road, the presidential motorcade was diverted, and he met with advisers and faculty members at the residence of former Secretary of State George Shultz (the Hoover fellow who organized the gathering) on the outskirts of the Stanford campus.^[2]

References

1. The William and Barbara Edwards Media Fellows Program Hoover Institution
2. NEWS UPDATE: Protests force Bush to relocate Hoover meeting; three students detained

External links

★ Hoover Institution website.

★ Grants made to Hoover Institution at MediaTransparency.org.

★ Stanford University and the Bush Administration, ''The Nation'', March 28, 2003.

★ Hoover Institution Events video