Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace

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The Hoover Institution, within Stanford University, is a Republican public policy research center devoted to advanced study of politics, economics, and political economy--both domestic and foreign--as well as international affairs. It has also been called the West's citadel of anticommunism, or Bush 'brain trust'. [1] (http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/1999/07/02/p2s1.htm)

Table of contents

1 History 2 Mission and Philosophy 3 Personnel 3.1 Executive Committee 4 Fellows 4.1 Senior Fellows 4.2 Fellows 4.3 Distinguished Visiting Fellows 5 Research Fellows 5.1 Honorary Fellows 5.2 Media Fellows Program 6 Funding 7 Publications 8 Contact Information 9 External Links 9.1 Undated Material 9.2 Articles & Commentary

History

It was founded in 1919 by Herbert Hoover, who later became the thirty-first president of the United States. The Institution originated as a specialized collection of documents on the causes and consequences of World War I. The collection grew rapidly and soon became one of the largest archives and most complete libraries in the world devoted to political, economic, and social change in the twentieth century.

By the late 1940s, the richness of the collection had led to the recruitment of scholars to use the documents in their work. Expanding its agenda to include specific research endeavors led to a vast accumulation of knowledge, and the Hoover Institution became one of the first and most distinguished academic centers in the United States dedicated to public policy research. Today, with its world-renowned group of scholars and ongoing programs of policy-oriented research, the Hoover Institution puts its accumulated knowledge to work as a prominent contributor to the world marketplace of ideas defining a free society.

Mission and Philosophy

Now more than four decades old, Herbert Hoover's 1959 statement to the Board of Trustees of Stanford University on the purpose and scope of the Hoover Institution (see text below) continues to guide and define its mission in the twenty-first century.

The principles of individual, economic, and political freedom; private enterprise; and representative government were fundamental to the vision of the Institution's founder. By collecting knowledge, generating ideas, and disseminating both, the Institution seeks to secure and safeguard peace, improve the human condition, and limit government intrusion into the lives of individuals.

"The Hoover Institution's well known antipathy to federal social welfare policies was ... expressed by the chair of the Hoover board when he declared that 'there is growing realization that we either must accede to the gathering force of the welfare state or return to the more promising ways of freedom.'" -- Hoover Institution Annual Report, 1995.[2] (http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipients/hoover.htm)

"Hoover, with $3.2 million in grants between 1992-1994 and an operating budget of close to $19 million in 1995, has focused particular attention on tax policy, promoting the flat tax for well over a decade and organizing policy briefings and conferences on the issue ... It was, according to one well-placed journalist and author, one of four leading policy institutions that pulled the nation's economic policy debate to the right in the early 1980s." --Edsall, The New Politics of Inequality. [3] (http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipients/hoover.htm)

Personnel

• Board of Overseers (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/main/boardovr.html)
• Officers (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/main/boardovr.html#officers)

Executive Committee

• W. Kurt Hauser, Chairman
• Peter B. Bedford, Vice Chairman
• Martin Anderson
• Herbert M. Dwight
• William C. Edwards
• Heather Higgins
• Herbert Hoover III
• Peyton M. Lake
• Bowen H. McCoy
• Robert J. Rishwain
• Richard Mellon Scaife
• Boyd C. Smith
• Thomas F. Stephenson
• Tad Taube
• Thomas J. Tierney
• David T. Traitel
• William D. Walsh

Fellows

The following is only a partial listing of those listed as Fellows. Biographies of Scholars (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/scollist.html) (under construction August 28, 2005).

Senior Fellows

• Richard V. Allen
• Martin Anderson
• Terry Anderson [4] (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/anderson_t.html)
• Gary Becker [5] (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/becker.html)
• Larry Diamond
• Milton Friedman [6] (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/friedman.html)
• William J. Perry [7] (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/perry.html)
• Henry S. Rowen
• Pete Wilson [8] (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/pwilson.html)

Fellows

• Donald Abenheim [9] (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/abenheim.html)
• Annelise Anderson [10] (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/aanderson.html)
• Robert Conquest [11] (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/conquest.html)
• Henry I. Miller [12] (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/miller_h.html)
• Condoleeza Rice (On Leave)
• Stanley Kurtz [13] (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/kurtz.html)
• Robert Zelnick [14] (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/zelnick.html)

Distinguished Visiting Fellows

• Spencer Abraham
• Michael H. Armacost [15] (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/armacost.html)
• John E. Chubb [16] (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/chubb.html)
• Newt Gingrich
• Paul R. Gregory [17] (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/gregory.html)
• Paul T. Hill [18] (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/phill.html)
• E.D. Hirsch Jr. [19] (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/hirsch.html)
• Caroline M. Hoxby [20] (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/hoxby.html)
• Edwin Meese III [21] (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/meese.html)
• Diane Ravitch [22] (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/ravitch.html)
• George P. Shultz [23] (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/shultz.html)
• Herbert J. Walberg [24] (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/walberg.html)
• Pete Wilson [25] (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/pwilson.html)

Research Fellows

The organizations lists 64 people as "Research Fellows" [26] (http://www.hoover.org/bios/title2.html#rf) including:

• Dinesh D'Souza

Honorary Fellows

• Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• Margaret Thatcher

Media Fellows Program

• Media Fellows (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/research/media.html) 1998-2005. A listing of print and broadcast media professionals who have or will spend time in residence at the Hoover Institution. For further details of 2006 fellows see Edwards Media Fellows Program.

Funding

According to Media Transparency, between 1985 and 2003 the Institution received $20,330,146 in 176 separate grants from only nine foundations: [27] (http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipientgrants.php?recipientID=157)

• Castle Rock Foundation
• Earhart Foundation
• JM Foundation
• Koch Family Foundations (Charles G. Koch Foundation)
• John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.
• Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
• Scaife Foundations (Sarah Mellon Scaife, Carthage)
• Smith Richardson Foundation

A 1999 Philip Morris planning document listed the Hoover Institution as a "Key Third Party All[y]" that's "receiving PM funding". [28] (http://www.pmdocs.com/PDF/2083756168_6169.PDF)

They're also listed in Towers Perrin's planning document as a "key ally" in remaking Philip Morris's public image.

Publications

• Policy Review
• Global Food Fight by Henry Miller
• Field of Genes - Genetically Modified Foods by Henry Miller, Walter Anderson, and Peggy Lemaux

Contact Information

Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6010
Phone: 650-723-1754
Toll free: 1-877-466-8374
Fax: 650-723-1687
Web: http://www-hoover.stanford.edu

External Links

Undated Material

• "Charter Schools, Character Education & the Eugenics Internationale. Behind the Conservative Curtain: Pseudo Grassroots Organizations Front for Corporate/Government Takeover. Part X: The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace," (http://watch.pair.com/charter10.html) watch.pair.com, undated.

Articles & Commentary

• "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.
• Paul Craig Roberts, "Propaganda’s Forward March," (http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts18.html) LewRockwell.com, November 19, 2003.
• Paul Craig Roberts, "Watching Propaganda Become Truth," (http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts30.html) LewRockwell.com, February 10, 2004.
• Maggie Burns, "Academia, business and government: the lucrative triangle in right-wing propaganda," (http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/012805Burns/01-28-05_Burns.pdf) Online Journal, January 28, 2005.

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