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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.

Table of contents

1 Funding
2 Members
3 References

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

Members

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

References

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.