The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace is a conservative and libertarian public policy think tank and library founded by Herbert Hoover at Stanford University, his alma mater. Some of its fellows have connections to the Bush administration. The Institution was founded in 1919 and over time has amassed a huge archive of documentation related to Hoover, World War I, and World War II, specifically focusing on the root causes of these wars.

Since 2001, Hoover also has published Policy Review magazine, one of the world's leading conservative journals.

Funding

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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

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

Honorary fellows

• Ronald Reagan, 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
• Robert Conquest (1981-), historian.
• Niall Ferguson, historian.
• Victor Davis Hanson, classicist and historian
• Peter Paret (1988-1993), historian.
• William J. Perry, former U.S. Secretary of Defense
• Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State
• Thomas Sowell, economist and author
• John B. Taylor, former U.S. Undersecretary of the Treasury for International Affairs

Senior research fellows

• Milton Friedman, economist and author

Research fellows

• Peter Berkowitz, political scientist
• Dinesh D'Souza, author
• Peter Schweizer, author
• Shelby Steele, 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

Bush visit to Hoover Institution

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President George W. Bush was invited to meet with fellows at the Hoover Institution on April 20, 2006. However, 400 protestors blocked the only road into the central area of the campus where Hoover is located. He met with advisers and faculty members at the residence of former Secretary of State George Shultz, a Hoover fellow who organized the gathering, on the outskirts of the Stanford campus [http://daily.stanford.edu/tempo?page=content&repository=0001_article&id=20166 .

References

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External links

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• Official Hoover Institution web site.
• profile at SourceWatch.com.
• Grants made to Hoover Institution.
• "California think tank acts as Bush 'brain trust' / Texas governor culls advice from members of Hoover Institution in his presidential bid", by Paul Van Slambrouck, The Christian Science Monitor, July 2, 1999.
• Emily Biuso, Stanford U. and the Bush Administration, The Nation, March 28, 2003.

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