Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace

Stanford, CA 94305

The Hoover Institution's well known antipathy to federal social welfare policies was recently 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, 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 last year. It was, according to one well-placed joumalist and author, one of four leading policy institutions that pulled the nation's economic policy debate to the right in the early 1980s.

August 22, 2019

Hoover Institution at ExxonSecrets.org

http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=43

May 21, 2018

Hoover Institution at IRC Right Web

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1479

Thinkprogress.org
November 28, 2006

Hoover Institution Attack On Pelosi Over ‘Union Hypocrisy’ Systematically Debunked

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/29/pelosi-unions/

Right-wing media outlets are engaged in an effort to tar House Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who won the Cesar Chavez award from the Cesar E. Chavez Foundation in 2003, as anti-worker.

The conservative claim, initiated by Hoover Institution fellow Peter Schweizer, is that Pelosi and her husband are guilty of hypocrisy over workers’ rights because they own a vineyard in Napa Valley that is non-union. The claim has filtered up through the blogs to Fox News and conservative print outlets like Investor’s Business Daily.

Last night, the ABC News affiliate in San Francisco filed an investigative report that systematically debunks the charge.

Orlando Sentinel
September 12, 2006

Hoover Institution set to revamp Florida education?

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-koret1306sep13,0,1197037.story?coll=orl-news-headlines-state

Think tank urges school reforms, no class-size limits

New educational reforms could be ahead for Florida schools now that a conservative think tank has called for better-qualified teachers, tougher reading and math standards and an end to the state's constitutional directive to reduce class sizes.

Gov. Jeb Bush looked on approvingly in Orlando as experts from Stanford University's Hoover Institution released results Tuesday of their nine-month review of the educational policies he championed for Florida's public-school system.

ThinkProgress.org
August 21, 2006

Hoover Gore smear picked up by Fox News

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/22/gore-smear/

Earlier this month, Peter Schweizer published a hit piece on Al Gore’s environmental habits. (Schweizer works at the Hoover Institute which has received nearly $300,000 from Exxon Mobile since 1998.) It was an obvious attempt to discredit Gore’s efforts to combat the threat of global warming.

The problem was the piece was inaccurate and USA today was forced to print a correction. That didn’t stop Rich Lowry, filling in for Sean Hannity, to repeat Schweizer’s false claims on Fox after the correction was printed. Lowry also took the liberty to add some new smears.

Where Land Meets Sea (blog)
David Roberts
August 16, 2006

Peter Schweitzer, Al Gore, and hypocrisy

http://rosewelsh.livejournal.com/54722.html

About a week ago, USA Today published a piece by Peter Schweitzer, who's a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. It accused Al Gore of hypocrisy, for asking viewers of An Inconvenient Truth to scale back their lifestyles and carbon emissions while ... well, there were a number of charges. According to Schweitzer, Gore owns three homes and stock in Occidental Petroleum, still receives royalties from a zinc mine on his property, does not participate in the green-power option his utility offers in Nashville, and lets Paramount pay for his carbon offsets....

I talked to some of Gore's people today, including Kreider, about the specific charges. Suffice to say, they're false. Gore receives no royalties from the mine, which shut down in 2003. (USA Today actually printed a correction about this, way down on page 10A.) Gore owns no stock in Occidental, and never has (his father did; it was all sold over six years ago). Gore does in fact take advantage of the green power options his utility offers, and was in the process of adding photovoltaic solar cells to his house when the article came out. He pays for his own personal carbon offsets, in addition to the institutional offsets purchased by Paramount (movie distributor) and Rodale (book publisher), which make both the book and the movie completely carbon neutral.

Center for American Progress
Think Progress
April 21, 2006

Bush Meets Privately With Think Tank Promoting Military Strike On Iran

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/22/bush-hoover-iran/

"Bush traveled Friday night to Stanford University, where he met privately with members of the libertarian Hoover Institution to discuss the war. He concluded the day with a private dinner held by George P. Shultz, a Hoover fellow and former secretary of state."

Why is this significant? The Hoover Institution is a think tank that has been aggressively promoting the viability of a preemptive military strike in Iran.

Joshua Holland
The Gadflyer
July 27, 2005

Neocon Nonsense…

http://gadflyer.com/flytrap/index.php?Week=200530#2028

What's going on at the (NY) Times?

Today, they have an Op-Ed by Paul Sperry, a Fellow with the Hoover Institute and author of "Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington." If that title doesn't reek of McCarthyism, I don't know what does. Sperry's written for WorldNetDaily and David Horowitz's FrontPage Mag. And now the Times.

The Nation
March 27, 2003

Stanford U. and the Bush Administration

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030414&s=biuso

As student antiwar activists work to make their case against war persuasive to ambivalent classmates, the leaders of a Stanford University peace group have launched a different kind of campaign--to reform a conservative think tank on campus with dubious ties to the Bush Administration...

Christian Science Monitor
July 1, 1999

California think tank acts as Bush 'brain trust'

http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1999/07/02/p2s1.htm

Texas governor culls advice from members of Hoover Institution in his presidential bid

George W. Bush may have gotten his drawl from Texas and his pedigree from Washington, but many of his ideas are coming from California.

Though the GOP presidential front-runner made his first trip this week as a candidate to this state, he's had a year-long running engagement with the Stanford University-based Hoover Institution, a collection of battle-toughened conservatives who have emerged as the early core of Mr. Bush's brain trust.