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The Hoover Institution

The Hoover Institution in May 2014

Abbreviation| Hoover
Formation| June 1919; 104 years ago (1919-06)
Founder| Herbert Hoover
Type| Public policy think tank
Legal status| 501(c)(3) public charity
Purpose| Public policy research in economics, history, and national security.

Professional title

| The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Location|

* United States
* 434 Galvez Mall
Stanford, California (Stanford University), U.S. 94305

Coordinates| 37°26′N 122°10′W﻿ / ﻿37.43°N 122.17°W﻿ / 37.43; -122.17

Director

| Condoleezza Rice

Parent organization

| Stanford University
Subsidiaries| Hoover Institution Press
Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Uncommon Knowledge
Battlegrounds
Defining Ideas
Hoover Digest

Revenue (2023)

| $104.6 million[1]
Expenses (2023)| $93.2 million[1]
Endowment| $782 million
Award(s)| National Humanities Medal
Website| www.hoover.org

Formerly called

| Hoover War Collection
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The Hoover Institution (officially The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace) is an American public policy think tank which promotes personal and economic liberty, free enterprise, and limited government.[2][3][4] While the institution is formally a unit of Stanford University, it maintains an independent board of overseers and relies on its own income and donations.[5][6][7] It is widely described as conservative, although its directors have contested the idea that it is partisan.[3][2][5][8][9]

The institution began in 1919 as a library founded by Stanford alumnus Herbert Hoover prior to his presidency in order to house his archives gathered during the Great War.[10] The well-known Hoover Tower was built to house the archives, then known as the Hoover War Collection (now the Hoover Institution Library and Archives), and contained material related to World War I, World War II, and other global events. The collection was renamed and transformed into a research institution ("think tank") during the mid-20th century. Its mission, as described by Herbert Hoover in 1959, is "to recall the voice of experience against the making of war, and by the study of these records and their publication, to recall man's endeavors to make and preserve peace, and to sustain for America the safeguards of the American way of life."[11]

It has staffed numerous jobs in Washington for Republican presidents from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump.[12] It has provided work for people who previously had important government jobs. Notable Hoover fellows and alumni include Nobel Prize laureates Henry Kissinger, Milton Friedman, and Gary Becker; economist Thomas Sowell; scholars Niall Ferguson and Richard Epstein; former Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich; and former Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis. In 2020, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice became the institution's director. It divides its fellows into separate research teams to work on various subjects, including Economic Policy, History, Education, and Law.[13] It publishes research by its own university press, the Hoover Institution Press.[14]

In 2021, Hoover was ranked as the 10th most influential think tank in the world by Academic Influence.[15] It was ranked 22nd on the "Top Think Tanks in United States" and 1st on the "Top Think Tanks to Look Out For" lists of the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program that same year.[16]

## History[edit]

### Founding[edit]

Further information: Hoover Institution Library and Archives

Herbert Hoover, the 31st U.S. president, and founder of the Hoover Institution

In June 1919, Herbert Hoover, then a wealthy engineer who was one of Stanford University's first graduates, sent a telegram offering Stanford president Ray Lyman Wilbur $50,000 in order to assist the collection of primary materials related to World War I, a project that became known as the Hoover War Collection. Assisted primarily by gifts from private donors, the Hoover War Collection flourished during its early years. In 1922, the collection became known as the Hoover War Library, now known as the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, and includes a variety of rare and unpublished material, including the files of the Okhrana and a plurality of government documents produced during the war.[17][18] It was housed originally in the Stanford Library, separate from the general stacks. In his memoirs, Hoover wrote:

> I did a vast amount of reading, mostly on previous wars, revolutions, and peace-makings of Europe and especially the political and economic aftermaths. At one time I set up some research at London, Paris, and Berlin into previous famines in Europe to see if there had developed any ideas on handling relief and pestilence. ... I was shortly convinced that gigantic famine would follow the present war. The steady degeneration of agriculture was obvious. ... I read in one of Andrew D. White's writings that most of the fugitive literature of comment during the French Revolution was lost to history because no one set any value on it at the time, and that without such material it became very difficult or impossible to reconstruct the real scene. Therein lay the origins of the Library on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University.[19]

### 20th century[edit]

Further information: Hoover Tower

Former United States Secretary of Defense Ash Carter speaks about defense innovation at the institution in Washington, D.C. in September 2016

By 1926, the Hoover War Library was the largest library in the world devoted to World War I, including 1.4 million items and too large to house in the Stanford University Library, so the university allocated $600,000 for the construction of the Hoover Tower, which was designed to be its permanent home independent of the Stanford Library system. The 285-foot tall tower was completed in 1941 on date of the university's golden jubilee.[20][21] The tower has since been a well-recognized part of the Stanford campus.[22]

In 1956, former President Hoover, in conjunction with the Institution and Library, began a major fundraising campaign that transitioned the organization to its current form as a research institution as well as archive.

In 1957, the Hoover Institution and Library was renamed the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, its current name.[23] In 1959, Stanford's Board of Trustees officially established the Hoover Institution as "an independent institution within the frame of Stanford University".[18]

In 1960, W. Glenn Campbell was appointed director and substantial budget increases soon resulted in corresponding increases in acquisitions and related research projects. In particular, the Chinese and Russian collections grew considerably. Despite student unrest during the 1960s, the institution continued to develop closer relations with Stanford University.[24]

In 1975, Ronald Reagan, who was Governor of California at that time, was designated as Hoover's first honorary fellow. He donated his gubernatorial papers to the Hoover library.[25] During that time the Hoover Institution had a general budget of $3.5 million a year. In 1976, one third of Stanford University's book holdings were housed at the Hoover library. At that time, it was the largest private archive collection in the United States.[22]

For his presidential campaign in 1980, Reagan engaged at least thirteen Hoover scholars to assist the campaign in multiple capacities.[26] After Reagan won the election, more than thirty current or former Hoover Institution fellows worked for the Reagan administration in 1981.[22]

In 1989, Campbell retired as director of Hoover and replaced by John Raisian, a change that was considered the end of an era.[27] Raisan served as director until 2015, and was succeeded by Thomas W. Gilligan.[28]

### 21st century[edit]

Former Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and Rex Tillerson during a Hoover forum in January 2018

In 2001, Hoover Senior fellow Condoleezza Rice joined the George W. Bush administration, serving as National Security Advisor from 2001 to 2005 and as Secretary of State from 2005 to 2009. In 2006, President George W. Bush awarded the National Humanities Medal to the Hoover Institution in 2006.[29]

In August 2017, the David and Joan Traitel Building was inaugurated. The ground floor is a conference facility with a 400-seat auditorium and the top floor houses the Hoover Institution's headquarters.[30]

At any given time, as of 2017, the Hoover Institution has as many as 200 resident scholars known as fellows. They are an interdisciplinary group studying political science, education, economics, foreign policy, energy, history, law, national security, health and politics. Some have joint appointments as lecturers on the Stanford faculty.[31]

The Trump administration maintained relations with the institution during his presidency, and several Hoover employees became senior advisors or were hired for jobs in his administration, including Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis, who was the Davies Family Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Hoover from 2013 to 2016, where he studied leadership, national security, strategy, innovation, and the effective use of military force.[32]

In March 2019, Mattis returned to his post at Hoover.[33] Distinguished Visiting Fellow Kevin Hassett became the first chairman of Trump's Council of Economic Advisors (CEA). The CEA chief principal economist, Josh Rauh, took leave from his Hoover Institution fellowship. After the third CEA chairman Tyler Goodspeed resigned in 2021, he went to Hoover.[34]

In February 2020, the Hoover board of trustees brought in senior Trump economic officials for off-the-record forecasts. According to The New York Times, "The president’s aides appeared to be giving wealthy party donors an early warning of a potentially impactful contagion at a time when Mr. Trump was publicly insisting that the threat was nonexistent." The board members spread the bad news and the stock market had a selloff.[35]

In 2020, Condoleezza Rice succeeded Thomas W. Gilligan as director.[28]

In November 2020, Scott Atlas, a Hoover fellow, was known for opposing public health measures as a major Trump advisor during the COVID-19 pandemic, and was condemned by a Stanford University faculty vote in November 2020.[36]

In January 2021, during Stanford University faculty senate discussions on closer collaboration between the university and the Institution in 2021, Rice "addressed campus criticism that the Hoover Institution is a partisan think tank that primarily supports conservative administrations and policy positions" by sharing "statistics that show Hoover fellows contribute financially to both political parties on an equal basis", according to the university's newsletter.[5]

## Campus[edit]

The Institution has libraries which include materials from both World War I and World War II, including the collection of documents of President Herbert Hoover, which he began to collect at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.[37] Thousands of Persian books, official documents, letters, multimedia pieces and other materials on Iran's history, politics and culture can also be found at the Stanford University library and the Hoover Institution library.[38]

View of the Hoover Institution's headquarters, including the Hoover Tower, among the Stanford University campus

## Publications[edit]

Further information: Policy Review

The Hoover Institution's in-house publisher, Hoover Institution Press, produces publications on public policy topics, including the quarterly periodicals Hoover Digest, Education Next, China Leadership Monitor, and Defining Ideas. The Hoover Institution Press previously published the bimonthly periodical Policy Review, which it acquired from The Heritage Foundation in 2001.[39] Policy Review ceased publication with its February–March 2013 issue.

The Hoover Institution Press also publishes books and essays by Hoover Institution fellows and other Hoover-affiliated scholars.

## Funding[edit]

The Hoover Institution receives nearly half of its funding from private gifts, primarily from individual contributions, and the other half from its endowment.[40]

Funders of the organization include the Taube Family Foundation, the Koret Foundation, the Howard Charitable Foundation, the Sarah Scaife Foundation, the Walton Foundation, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, and the William E. Simon Foundation.[41]

### Details[edit]

Funding sources and expenditures, FY 2022[42]

Funding Sources, FY 2022: $78,800,000

Expendable Gifts (51%)

Endowment Payout (42%)

Misc. Income and Stanford Support (3%)

Revenue from Prior Periods (4%)

Expenditures, FY 2022: $77,600,000

Research (53%)

Library & Archives (15%)

Outreach and Education (12%)

Development (10%)

Administration and Operations (10%)

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## Members[edit]

In May 2018, the Hoover Institution's website listed 198 fellows. Fellowship appointments do not require the approval of Stanford tenure committees.[43]

Below is a list of directors and some of the more prominent fellows, former and current.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (May 2016)

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### Directors[edit]

* Ephraim D. Adams, 1920–25
* Ralph H. Lutz, 1925–44
* Harold H. Fisher, 1944–52
* C. Easton Rothwell, 1952–59[44]
* W. Glenn Campbell, 1960–89[45]
* John Raisian, 1989–2015
* Thomas W. Gilligan, 2015–2020
* Condoleezza Rice, 2020–present

### Honorary Fellows[edit]

* Friedrich Hayek, philosopher and Nobel laureate in economics[25] (deceased)
* Ronald Reagan, former President of the United States[25] (deceased)
* Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Soviet dissident and Nobel laureate in literature[25] (deceased)
* Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom[46] (deceased)

### Distinguished Fellows[edit]

* George Shultz, former U.S. Secretary of State[47] (deceased)

### Senior Fellows[edit]

* Fouad Ajami, political scientist, former director of the Middle East Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University (deceased)[48]
* Scott Atlas, health care policy scholar and physician, former professor and former Chief of Neuroradiology at Stanford University School of Medicine
* Richard V. Allen, former U.S. National Security Advisor
* Martin Anderson, former advisor to Richard Nixon and author of The Federal Bulldozer (deceased)
* Robert Barro, economist, Harvard University
* Gary Becker, 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate and professor, University of Chicago (deceased)
* Joseph Berger, theoretical sociologist, Stanford University
* Peter Berkowitz, political scientist, Stanford University
* Russell Berman, professor, German Studies and Comparative Literature, Stanford University
* Michael Boskin, chairman, Council of Economic Advisers in the George H. W. Bush administration
* David W. Brady, political scientist, Stanford University[49]
* Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, political scientist, professor at New York University
* Elizabeth Cobbs, historian, novelist, and documentary filmmaker
* John H. Cochrane, economist, Stanford Graduate School of Business
* William Damon, professor of education, Stanford University
* Larry Diamond, professor of international studies, Stanford University
* Frank Dikötter, chair and professor of humanities, University of Hong Kong
* Sidney Drell, theoretical physicist and arms control expert, Stanford University (deceased)
* Darrell Duffie, Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance at Stanford Graduate School of Business
* John B. Dunlop, expert on Soviet and Russian politics
* Richard Epstein, legal scholar, New York University
* Martin Feldstein, senior fellow at the George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University (deceased)
* Niall Ferguson, historian and professor, Harvard University
* Chester E. Finn Jr., education and public policy professor, Vanderbilt University
* Morris Fiorina, political science professor, Stanford University
* Milton Friedman, economics professor, University of Chicago, and 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate (deceased)
* Timothy Garton Ash, European history professor, University of Oxford, and columnist, The Guardian
* Jack Goldsmith, legal scholar, Harvard Law School
* Stephen Haber, economic historian and political scientist, Stanford University
* Robert Hall, economics professor, Stanford University
* Victor Davis Hanson, classics professor emeritus, California State University, Fresno
* Eric Hanushek, economist
* David R. Henderson, economist
* Caroline Hoxby, economist
* Bobby Ray Inman, retired admiral
* Shanto Iyengar, professor of political science, and director of the Political Communication Laboratory at Stanford University
* Ken Jowitt, historian
* Kenneth L. Judd, economist
* Daniel P. Kessler, scholar of health policy and health care finance
* Stephen D. Krasner, international relations professor
* Edward Lazear, economist (Deceased)
* Gary D. Libecap, Bren Professor of Corporate Environmental Policy and of Donald R. Bren School of Environmental Science
* Seymour Martin Lipset, political sociologist (deceased)
* Harvey Mansfield, political scientist
* Michael W. McConnell, legal scholar, former judge, professor at Stanford University
* Michael McFaul, political scientist, United States Ambassador to Russia
* H.R. McMaster, former National Security Advisor
* Thomas Metzger, sinologist
* James C. Miller III, economist
* Terry M. Moe, professor of political science at Stanford University
* Kevin M. Murphy, economist
* Norman Naimark, historian
* Douglass North, 1993 Nobel laureate in economics (deceased)
* Lee Ohanion, economist
* William J. Perry, former U.S. Secretary of Defense
* Paul E. Peterson, scholar on education reform
* Alvin Rabushka, political scientist
* Raghuram Rajan, Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago's Booth School
* Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. Secretary of State
* Henry Rowen, economist (deceased)
* Thomas J. Sargent, 2011 Nobel laureate in economics, professor at New York University
* Robert Service, historian
* John Shoven, economist
* Abraham David Sofaer, scholar, former legal advisor to the U.S. Secretary of State
* Thomas Sowell, economist, author, columnist
* Michael Spence, 2001 Nobel laureate in economics
* Richard F. Staar, political scientist, historian (Deceased)
* Shelby Steele, author, columnist
* John B. Taylor, former U.S. Undersecretary of the Treasury for international affairs
* Eugene Volokh, professor of law emeritus at UCLA School of Law (effective July 1, 2024) [50]
* Barry R. Weingast, political scientist
* Bertram Wolfe, author, scholar, former communist, (deceased; 1896–1977)
* Amy Zegart, political scientist

### Research Fellows[edit]

* Ayaan Hirsi Ali, author, scholar and former politician
* Clint Bolick, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona
* Lanhee Chen, political scientist, health policy expert, former policy director for Mitt Romney[51]
* Robert Conquest, historian (deceased)
* David Davenport, former president of Pepperdine University
* Williamson Evers, education researcher
* Paul R. Gregory, Cullen Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics at the University of Houston
* Alice Hill, former federal prosecutor, judge, special assistant to the president, and senior director for the National Security Council
* Charles Hill, lecturer in International Studies (Deceased)
* Tim Kane, economist
* Herbert S. Klein, historian
* Tod Lindberg, foreign policy expert
* Alice L. Miller, political scientist
* Shavit Matias, former deputy attorney general of Israel
* Abbas Milani, political scientist
* Henry I. Miller, physician
* Elena Pastorino, economist
* Russell Roberts, economist, author
* Kori Schake, foreign policy expert, author
* Kiron Skinner, associate professor of international relations and political science, author
* Peter Schweizer, author (former fellow)
* Antony C. Sutton, author of Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development (3 vol), fellow from 1968 to 1973
* Bruce Thornton, American classicist
* Tunku Varadarajan, writer and journalist

### Distinguished Visiting Fellows[edit]

* John Abizaid, former commander of the U.S. Central Command[52] (former fellow)
* Spencer Abraham, former U.S. Senator and Secretary of Energy (former fellow)
* Pedro Aspe, Mexican economist, former secretary of finance
* Michael R. Auslin, American writer, policy analyst, historian, and Asia expert
* Michael D. Bordo, Canadian economist, professor of economics at Rutgers University
* Charles Calomiris, financial policy expert, author, and professor at Columbia Business School
* Arye Carmon, Founding President and senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI)
* Elizabeth Economy, C. V. Starr senior fellow and director for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations
* James O. Ellis, former commander, United States Strategic Command[53]
* James Goodby, author and former American diplomat
* Jim Hoagland, American journalist and two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize
* Toomas Hendrik Ilves, former President of Estonia
* Raymond Jeanloz, professor of earth and planetary science and of astronomy
* Josef Joffe, publisher-editor of the German newspaper Die Zeit
* Henry Kissinger, former United States Secretary of State in the administrations of presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford (Deceased)
* James Mattis, former commander, U.S. Central Command and former Secretary of Defense
* Allan H. Meltzer, American economist (Deceased)
* Edwin Meese, former U.S. Attorney General
* David C. Mulford, former United States Ambassador to India, former Vice-Chairman International of Credit Suisse
* Joseph Nye, American political scientist, co-founder of the international relations theory of neoliberalism
* Sam Nunn, former United States Senator from Georgia
* George Osborne, British Conservative Party politician, former Chancellor of the Exchequer and former Member of Parliament (MP) for Tatton
* Andrew Roberts, British historian and journalist, Visiting Professor at the Department of War Studies, King's College London
* Peter M. Robinson, American author, research fellow television host, former speechwriter for then-Vice President George H. W. Bush and President Ronald Reagan
* Gary Roughead, former Chief of Naval Operations
* Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense (deceased)
* Christopher Stubbs, an experimental physicist
* William Suter, former Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States
* Kevin Warsh, former governor of the Federal Reserve System
* Pete Wilson, former Governor of California

### Visiting Fellows[edit]

* Alexander Benard, American businessman, lawyer, and commentator on U.S. public policy
* Charles Blahous, U.S. public trustee for the Social Security and Medicare programs
* Robert J. Hodrick, U.S. economist specialized in International Finance
* Markos Kounalakis, Greek-American journalist, author, scholar, and the Second Gentleman of California
* Bjørn Lomborg, Danish author, president of Copenhagen Consensus Center
* Ellen R. McGrattan, professor of economics at the University of Minnesota
* Afshin Molavi, Iranian-American author and expert on global geo-political risk and geo-economics
* Charles I. Plosser, former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
* Raj Shah, former White House Deputy Press Secretary, former Deputy Assistant to the President
* Alex Stamos, computer scientist, former chief security officer at Facebook
* John Yoo, Korean-American attorney, law professor, former government official, author
* Glennys Young, American international relations scholar

### Media Fellows[edit]

* Tom Bethell, journalist[54]
* Sam Dealey, journalist, former editor-in-chief of Washington Times
* Christopher Hitchens, journalist (deceased)[55]
* Deroy Murdock, journalist[55][56]
* Mike Pride, editor emeritus of the Concord Monitor and former administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes
* Christopher Ruddy, CEO of Newsmax Media

### National Fellows[edit]

* Mark Bils, macroeconomist, National Fellow 1989–90[57]
* Stephen Kotkin, historian, National Fellow 2010–11[58]

### Senior Research Fellows[edit]

* John H. Bunzel, expert in the field of civil rights, race relations, higher education, US politics, and elections (deceased)[59]
* Robert Hessen, historian[60]
* James Stockdale, Navy Vice Admiral, Medal of Honor recipient, 1992 US vice presidential candidate (deceased) [61]
* Edward Teller, physicist (deceased)[62]
* Charles Wolf, Jr, economist (deceased)[63]

## See also[edit]

* List of Stanford University Centers and Institutes

## References[edit]

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2. ^ a b Hanson, Victor Davis (July 30, 2019). "100 Years of the Hoover Institution". National Review. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
3. ^ a b "Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace". Encyclopaedica Britannica. Retrieved April 16, 2015.
4. ^ McBride, Stewart (May 28, 1975). "Hoover Institution: Leaning to the right". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved April 16, 2015.
5. ^ a b c University, Stanford (January 29, 2021). "Stanford's relationship to the Hoover Institution highlights Faculty Senate discussion". Stanford Report. Retrieved June 19, 2022.
6. ^ "Board of Overseers". Hoover Institution. Retrieved June 21, 2022.
7. ^ Ali, Ayaan Hirsi. "The False Appeal Of Socialism". Hoover Institution. Archived from the original on October 5, 2023. Retrieved October 5, 2023.
8. ^ Chesley, Kate (January 29, 2021). "Stanford's relationship to the Hoover Institution highlights Faculty Senate discussion". Stanford Report.
9. ^ Gilligan, Thomas W. (March 23, 2015). "Business Dean Seizes Rare Opportunity to Lead Hoover Institution, and Other News About People". The Chronicle of Higher Education.
10. ^ "Exhibits A through Z". Stanford Magazine. March 2006. Retrieved July 9, 2022.
11. ^ "Mission/History". Hoover Institution. Retrieved June 20, 2022.
12. ^ Val Burris. "The interlock structure of the policy-planning network and the right turn in U.S. state policy" In  Politics and Public Policy (March 2015) pp. 3-42.
13. ^ "Research". Hoover Institution. Retrieved June 20, 2022.
14. ^ "Hoover Institution Press". Hoover Institution. Retrieved May 21, 2023.
15. ^ "Top Influential Think Tanks". Retrieved October 9, 2020.
16. ^ McGann, James (January 28, 2021). "2020 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report". TTCSP Global Go to Think Tank Index Reports (18).
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18. ^ a b "Hoover Timeline". Hoover Institution. Retrieved June 19, 2022.
19. ^ Hoover, Herbert (1951). The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: Years of Adventure, 1874–1920 (PDF). New York: Macmillan. pp. 184–85.
20. ^ "Hoover Institution Library and Archives: Historical Background". Hoover Institution.
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24. ^ Duignan, Peter (2001). "The Library of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. Part 2: The Campbell Years". Library History. 17 (2): 107–118. doi:10.1179/lib.2001.17.2.107. S2CID 144451652.
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26. ^ Fitzgerald, Patrick (February 1, 2008). "At Stanford, Hoover Debate Still Rages". CBS News. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
27. ^ "The Man Behind the Institution". Stanford Magazine. April 2002. Retrieved July 18, 2019.
28. ^ a b "Condoleezza Rice to lead Stanford's Hoover Institution". Stanford News. January 28, 2020. Retrieved February 2, 2020.
29. ^ "President Bush Awards the 2006 National Humanities Medals". The National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved June 20, 2022.
30. ^ Martinovich, Milenko (October 19, 2017). "Hoover opens new David and Joan Traitel Building". Stanford News. Retrieved June 20, 2022.
31. ^ Martinovich, Milenko (October 20, 2017). "Through research and education, Hoover scholars tackle some of the most urgent issues of our time". Stanford News. Retrieved June 20, 2022.
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33. ^ See "Former Secretary Of Defense, General Jim Mattis, US Marine Corps (Ret.), Returns To The Hoover Institution At Stanford University" online press release March 19, 2019.
34. ^ See "Hoover Institution Board of Overseers Holds Meetings in Washington, DC, Featuring Senior Trump Administration Officials" News from the Hoover Institution February 24, 2020 online
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42. ^ "Financial Review 2022" (PDF). Hoover Institution. Retrieved February 5, 2023.
43. ^ Wooster, Martin Morse (2017). How Great Philanthropists Failed and You Can Succeed at Protecting Your Legacy. USA: Capital Research Center. p. 201\. ISBN 978-1892934048.
44. ^ "Yacht club to host celebration of Virginia Rothwell". Stanford Report. September 1, 2004. Retrieved March 25, 2008.
45. ^ Trei, Lisa (November 28, 2001). "Glenn Campbell, former Hoover director, dead at 77". Stanford Report. Retrieved March 25, 2008.
46. ^ "Margaret Thatcher". Hoover Institution. 2010. Retrieved January 4, 2017.
47. ^ "Distinguished Fellow". Hoover Institution Stanford University. 2010. Retrieved January 4, 2017.
48. ^ "Senior Fellows". Hoover Institution Stanford University. 2011. Retrieved January 4, 2017.
49. ^ "David Brady". Hoover Institution.
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51. ^ "Research Fellows". Hoover Institution.
52. ^ "Former U.S. Central Command Chief General John Abizaid Appointed Hoover Distinguished Visiting Fellow". Hoover Institution.
53. ^ "Distinguished Visiting Fellows". Hoover Institution Stanford University. 2014. Retrieved January 4, 2017.
54. ^ "William and Barbara Edwards Media Fellows". Hoover Institution Stanford University. 2010. Retrieved November 9, 2010.
55. ^ a b "William and Barbara Edwards Media Fellows by year". hoover.org.
56. ^ "William and Barbara Edwards Media Fellows by year". Hoover Institutio.
57. ^ "VITA Mark Bils" (PDF). University of Rochester. Retrieved May 31, 2018.
58. ^ "Stephen Kotkin". Hoover Institution. Retrieved September 29, 2016.
59. ^ "John H. Bunzel". Hoover Institution. Retrieved November 25, 2019.
60. ^ "Robert Hessen". Hoover Institution. Retrieved September 29, 2016.
61. ^ "James Bond Stockdale". Hoover Institution. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
62. ^ "Edward Teller". Hoover Institution. Retrieved March 7, 2018.
63. ^ "Charles Wolf Jr". Hoover Institution. Retrieved September 29, 2016.

## Further reading[edit]

* Duignan, Peter. "The Library of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace Part I. Origin and Growth." Library History 17.1 (2001): 3-20.
* Dwyer, Joseph D., ed. Russia, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe: A Survey of Holdings at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace (Hoover Press, 1980) online.
* Kiester, Sally Valente. "New Influence for Stanford's Hoover Institution." Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning 13.7 (1981): 46-50. online, on role in Reagan administration
* Palm, Charles G., and Dale Reed. Guide to the Hoover Institution Archives (Hoover Press, 1980) online.
* Paul, Gary Norman. "The Development of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace Library, 1919–1944". PhD dissertation U. of California, Berkeley. Dissertation Abstracts International 1974 35(3): 1682–1683a, 274 pp.
* Reed, Dale, and Michael Jakobson. "Trotsky Papers at the Hoover Institution: One Chapter of an Archival Mystery Story." American Historical Review 92.2 (1987): 363-375. online
* Scott, Erik R. Defining Moments: The First One Hundred Years of the Hoover Institution (2019) online book review

## External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hoover Institution.

* Official website
* hoover.org/hila, the Hoover Institution Library and Archives official website
* hooverpress.org, the Hoover Institution Press's official website
* definingideas.org, a Hoover Institution online journal
* EDIRC listing (provided by RePEc)
* Hoover Institution at Curlie
* advancingafreesociety.org, the Hoover Institution's blog of research and opinion on current policy matters
* Video of Hoover Institution events and Uncommon Knowledge at YouTube
* Video of Hoover Institution events at FORA.tv
* Hoover Institution FBI files hosted at the Internet Archive

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