Hoover Institution
The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace is a think tank and library at Stanford University in California. It was founded in 1919 by the future President of the United States Herbert Hoover . The Hoover Institution has a large archive of Herbert Hoover, the First and Second World War . It is mainly financed by donations from foundations of large American corporations such as JP Morgan , General Motors , Exxon or Procter & Gamble . Since 2001 she has published the journal Policy Review .
The Hoover Institution has a major influence on the conservative and libertarian movements in the United States. Conservative members of US governments (such as Donald Rumsfeld ) have given lectures at the institute. A meeting between President George W. Bush and researchers at the Hoover Institution was prevented in 2006 by students from Stanford University and other demonstrators. Among the Fellows of the Institute are or were politicians such as Margaret Thatcher , Ronald Reagan and Condoleezza Rice , as well as the writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn , the economist Milton Friedman and the co-editor of the German weekly Time , Josef Joffe and guest author Andreas Umland .