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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. 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 influential in the American conservative and libertarian movements, and the Institution has long been a place of scholarship for high profile conservatives with government experience. A number of fellows have connections to or positions in the Bush administration, and other Republican administrations. On September 8, 2007 the Hoover Institution announced that former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld had accepted an invitation to join the institution as a one-year visiting fellow [2] [3]. A non-political figure who played a key role in the Bush Administration's Iraq policy, Retired Army Gen. John P. Abizaid, former commander of the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), recently joined the Hoover Institution (as the first Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow) [4]. Other fellows of the Institution include such high profile conservatives as Condoleezza Rice, George Shultz, Newt Gingrich, Thomas Sowell, Dinesh D'Souza, Shelby Steele, Edwin Meese and Pete Wilson. Since 2001, Hoover has published Policy Review.

1 Funding
2 Members
3 Publications
4 Bush visit to Hoover Institution
5 References
6 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.

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
Henry I. Miller, physician
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]

Visiting scholar

Peter Boettke, economist

Publications

The Hoover Institution produces multiple publications regarding public policy topics, including the quarterly publications Hoover Digest, Education Next, and China Leadership Monitor. In 2001, the Hoover Institution acquired the bimonthly publication Policy Review from the Heritage Foundation. The Hoover Institution Press also publishes books and essays.

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] One of the items on the agenda was his Bush Institute, modeled after the Hoover Institution, widely expected to be located at Southern Methodist University(SMU), Dallas, TX; the alma mater of his wife, Laura Bush.

References

^ Hoover Institution. The William and Barbara Edwards Media Fellows Program (html). hoover.org. “The Edwards Media Fellows Program allows print and broadcast media professionals to spend time in residence at the Hoover Institution. Media fellows have the opportunity to exchange information and perspectives with Hoover scholars through seminars and informal meetings and with the Hoover and Stanford communities in public lectures. As fellows, they have access to the full range of research tools that Hoover offers.”
^ Amit Arora. "NEWS UPDATE: Protests force Bush to relocate Hoover meeting; three students detained", The Stanford Daily, April 21 2006.