Hoover Institution: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

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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. 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.

Funding

The Hoover Institution receives much of its funding from conservative and corporate interests. A partial list of its recent donors includes:

• Archer Daniels Midland Foundation
• Exxon Educational Foundation
• General Motors Foundation
• Procter & Gamble Fund
• ARCO Foundation
• Rockwell International Corporation Trust
• Ford Motor Company Fund
• Boeing-McDonnell Foundation
• Chrysler Corporation Fund
• Dean Witter Foundation
• Merrill Lynch & Company Foundation
• J.P. Morgan Charitable Trust
• Transamerica Foundation

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

• Richard V. Allen, former United States National Security Advisor
• Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
• Dinesh D'Souza, author
• Edwin Meese, former United States Attorney General
• Condoleezza Rice, United States National Security Advisor
• Donald Rumsfeld, United States Secretary of Defense
• George P. Schultz, former United States Secretary of State
• Thomas Sowell, economist and author
• Victor Davis Hanson, classicist and historian

• The official website
• Disinfopedia article
• "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, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor, July 2, 1999.
• Emily Biuso, Stanford U. and the Bush Administration, The Nation, March 28, 2003.