Hoover Institution
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The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace is a conservative 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.
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Funding
The Hoover Institution receives much of its funding from private charitable foundations, including many attached to large corporations. A partial list (http://www.capitalresearch.org/search/orgdisplay.asp?Org=HOO100) 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
Founding principles
Members
The following is a short list of past or present Hoover Institution fellows.
- Richard V. Allen, former United States National Security Advisor
- Dinesh D'Souza, author
- Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
- Victor Davis Hanson, classicist and historian
- Edwin Meese, former United States Attorney General
- Condoleezza Rice, United States Secretary of State
- Donald Rumsfeld, United States Secretary of Defense
- George P. Shultz, former United States Secretary of State
- Thomas Sowell, economist and author
Former members
- Kazuhide Uekusa, Japanese economist, former professor at Waseda University graduate school.
References
- The official website (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/)
- Disinfopedia article (http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Hoover_Institute)
- Grants made to the HI (http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipientgrants.php?recipientID=157)
- "California think tank acts as Bush 'brain trust' / Texas governor culls advice from members of Hoover Institution in his presidential bid" (http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/1999/07/02/p2s1.htm) by Paul Van Slambrouck, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor, July 2, 1999.
- Emily Biuso, Stanford U. and the Bush Administration (http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030414&s=biuso), The Nation, March 28, 2003.
