January 2007: California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger makes a point about free market economics. (Photo: Stanford Visual Arts Services)

January 2007: Qubad Talabani, the representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government to the United States, visited the Hoover Institution, on Wednesday, January 24. He met with Hoover scholars to discuss Iraqi politics and the role of his country in the Middle East. (Photo: Stanford Visual Arts Services)

February 2007: Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani spoke of reinvention, reinvigoration, and other strategies to bring greater freedom to Americans when he spoke on Monday at a meeting of the Hoover Institution Board of Overseers in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Chrome, Inc.)

May 2007: Presidential candidate Senator John McCain makes a major address concerning U.S. foreign policy. (Photo: Stanford Visual Arts Services)

May 2007: Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer examines a document from the Hoover Archives (Deputy Archivist Linda Bernard is on the right). (Photo courtesy of Mark Stewart, U.S. Department of State)

June 2007: Secretary of Veterans Affairs R. James Nicholson meets with Hoover fellows to discuss the strains and stresses facing the military and veterans as a result of the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. (Photo: Stanford Visual Arts Services)

June 2007: Israeli ambassador to the United States Sallai Meidor met with Hoover fellows as the guest of honor at a roundtable discussion. (Photo: Stanford Visual Arts Services)

June 2007: Former U.S. Senator Fred Thompson (R-Tennessee) met with Hoover Institution fellows on Monday, June 11, to discuss domestic and international political and economic issues as he considers becoming a candidate for U.S. president. (Photo: Stanford Visual Arts Services)

Janusz Krupski, Polish minister from the Office for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression, and his adviser review World War II documents from the Hoover Archives.

Sam Nunn, former chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and chief executive officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative

The prime minister of Estonia, Andrus Ansip, was a featured speaker at the Hoover Institution retreat November 29 and 30. In his talk, “How a Former Soviet Satellite Became One of the World’s Most Free Economies,” Ansip said that “freedom means something very special to Estonians.