A Hoover forum on politics, economics, and society featuring Gary Libecap, the Sherm and Marge Telleen Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution was held on May 13. Libecap led a discussion on “California’s Water Crisis and the Role of Water Markets as a Solution.”
University Auditorium of the Classic Residence by Hyatt
John Aldrich is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Pfizer-Pratt University Professor of Political Science at Duke University. Aldrich gave a talk titled “The Partisan Politics of Supreme Court Nominations” at the Classic Residence by Hyatt in Palo Alto, California, on May 11.
A Hoover forum on politics, economics, and society featuring Hoover fellow Thad Kousser was held on March 25. Kousser led a discussion on “California’s Constitutional Crisis.” David Brady, deputy director and Davies Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, hosted the event.
Kiron K. Skinner, a W. Glenn Campbell Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and associate professor of history and political science at Carnegie Mellon University, has been appointed to the advisory board of the official oral history project for President George W. Bush.
David Brady, the Davies Family Senior Fellow and deputy director at the Hoover Institution, kicks off the 2010 Board of Overseer’s meeting with a discussion on health care. He shares thoughts and research on why health care policy is—and will continue to be—hard to reform.
Michael Steele, the Republican National Committee chairman, met with Hoover fellows on Tuesday, January 12, as the guest of honor at a roundtable discussion followed by a lunch.
General Cartwright met with Hoover fellows Condoleezza Rice, the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy; George Shultz, the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow; and Sidney Drell, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, concerning the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty and nonproliferation issues.
The recent extension of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) through October 3, 2010, is the latest government action in more than a year of bailouts of banks and other businesses.