The Conservative Forum of Silicon Valley arranged a tour of the Hoover Institute May 22.  Here are a few pictures taken during the tour.  They reflect what I thought was relevant and of interest to me.  I hope I have the names and titles right.  If someone has the name of the archivist that displayed the exhibits for us or any corrections, please contact me.  (Howard Myers at:   1hmyers1 @ comcast.net)

The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace is a conservative public policy think tank and library founded in 1919 by U.S. President Herbert Hoover at Stanford University, his alma mater. Over time it has amassed a huge archive of documentation related to President Hoover, World War I, and World War II, specifically focusing on theories about the root causes of these wars. (From Wikipedia,)

 

The first part of the tour was a presentation to the group. 

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Professor Russell Berman, discussion on "Terrorism and ideology".

 

  Professor David Brady discussing the current election.

 

 Archivist  Brad Bauer giving us the background of the Hoover Institute.

 
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The library area where half the tour stayed for the presentation of some exhibits.

 

 The tour was split in half for a discussion of some of the exhibits.  This is the first half.

 

 In the library
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  A random shot of the many drawers of card catalogs of photos available.

 

  
For all pictures of the exhibits flash photography is prohibited, so some shots are as blurry as my memory of their content.
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I believe this are discharge papers from the Polish Army in WWII.

 

 Nothing up my sleeve.

 

 Letter to Milton Friedman from Ronal Reagan.

 
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Letter to Milton Friedman from Wm. F. Buckley Jr.

 

 Letter to Milton Friedman from Alan Greenspan.

 

 Letter to Milton Friedman from Ronal Reagan.

 
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Letter to Wm. F. Buckley from James Burnham

 

 If memory serves, as is sometimes does, this was a list of revolutionaries kept by the Czarist regime in Russia before the revolution.

 

 Stalin was all smiles after signing the non-aggression pact with Hitler.

 
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Political posters.

 

 I believe this are discharge papers from the Polish Army in WWII.

 

 A mission description of the Enola Gay.  Check the description of the bomb load.