Building on Success: The Soviet Dissident Movement and American Foreign Policy during the 1980s

Hoover’s Spring 2017 Retreat brought together Hoover supporters and fellows to meet around topics that shape nations yet also touch individual lives in personal ways at home and abroad. Riveting presentations and incisive question-and-answer periods sustained an energy level that felt appropriate to the rapidly moving history in which Hoover and its supporters are playing a role.

“The Hoover Institution is an American treasure. I knew of it long before I came to public service. You understand that America is indeed exceptional. You are committed to liberty.” 
—US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Hoover Board of Overseers Vice ...

(Pictured left to right) Distinguished fellow George P. Shultz and senior fellow in economics John B. Taylor kicked off the Mont Pelerin Society Conference with a discussion about their new book, Choose Economic Freedom: Enduring Policy Lessons from the ...

Artists traveling throughout Europe in the 1960s, especially American jazz musicians, often visited with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reporters. Included in this slideshow are some notable examples, including Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, and Benny Goodman, as well as many outside the American jazz scene. (The photographs of these musical ambassadors are part of the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty corporate records at the Hoover Institution Archives.)

The secret world of the Soviet Union revealed in Lenin's Brain.

The Saudi Arabian delegation of the United Nations Conference on International Organization, led by Prince (later, King) Faisal bin Abdulaziz, visiting the Hoover Tower in the company of Director H.H. Fischer, May 19, 1945 (United Nations Conference on ...