Before delivering a policy address at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies on January 20, 2006, His Excellency Arnold Rüütel, president of Estonia, visited the Hoover Institution. Hoover staff members David Jacobs and Linda Bernard presented some of the historical materials relating to Estonia held by the Library and Archives.

President Arnold Rüütel of Estonia being shown materials from his country's first period of independence by archival specialist David Jacobs.