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Chen Bulei, Chiang Kai-shek’s confidential assistant from the mid-1920s to the late 1940s.

Hoover Opens Personal Diaries of Chen Bulei, the Generalissimo’s Confidential Assistant

Thursday, March 10, 2016

Hoover Library & Archives has recently acquired and made available the personal diaries of Chen Bulei, (1890–1948), Chiang Kai-shek’s confidential assistant, who put into words the policies of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the government under Chiang. Hoover also houses the personal diaries of Chaing Kai-shek.

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Toshio Nishi Returns To Hoover Institution As The Tadahiro Ogawa Fellow

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Hoover Institution research fellow Toshio Nishi, a groundbreaking historian of the US occupation of Japan and author of the Hoover Institution book Unconditional Democracy: Education and Politics in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952, helped set the Hoover standard for scholarly originality. 

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New Watergate And Nixon Administration Materials Now Available At Hoover Archives

Tuesday, March 8, 2016
The papers of Gerald Warren, newspaperman and deputy press secretary to Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, are now open. Of particular interest to researchers may be the White House Subject File, which makes up the bulk of the collection and includes materials on a variety of topics, including the controversy surrounding the Watergate break-in.
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Participants of the de Basily symposium view rare Russian materials from Hoover Archives
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Scholars And Archivists Convene To Discuss Russian Art At Hoover Archives

Monday, March 7, 2016

On March 1-2, curators, archivists, and art historians from around the nation met at Hoover Archives to discuss the preservation, curation, and exhibition of rare Russian art, with particular emphasis on Hoover Archives’ Nicolas de Basily collection.

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New Student-Curated Exhibition Opens In Hoover Tower

Friday, March 4, 2016

Hoover staff member and student curator Alex Kelly (Stanford '19) describes her selection of WWI-era materials for the new exhibition Great Love in the Great War, now on display in the rotunda of the Hoover Tower.

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Hoover Institution celebrates the life of Fellow Rita Ricardo-Campbell

Thursday, March 10, 2016
Stanford

The Hoover Institution announced today that renowned economist and senior fellow Rita Ricardo-Campbell died on March 7, 2016, at the age of ninety-five.

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Pragmatic Engagement Amidst Global Uncertainty: Three Major Challenges, a national security strategy written by the Hoover Institution’s Working Group on Foreign Policy and Grand Strategy.
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Hoover Institution Bipartisan Working Group Releases National Security Strategy For The Future

Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Stanford

The Hoover Institution today released Pragmatic Engagement Amidst Global Uncertainty: Three Major Challenges, a national security strategy written by the Hoover Institution’s Working Group on Foreign Policy and Grand Strategy. 

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One Day We Will Live Without Fear: Everyday Lives Under the Soviet Police State
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Mark Harrison: One Day We Will Live Without Fear

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

The Hoover Institution Press released One Day We Will Live without Fear by Mark Harrison, a collection of stories that tells what daily life was like for people under the regime of the Soviet police state.

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Hoover Institution: Taylor Receives 2016 Central Banking Award For Economics

Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Stanford

The Hoover Institution is pleased to announce that Senior Fellow and Stanford Economics Professor John B. Taylor will receive the 2016 Central Banking Award for Economics. This esteemed award is given by Central Banking Publications, a publishing outfit known for providing informed debate about monetary policy for the past 25 years.

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Hoover Institution Golden State Poll: Californians Have Their Eye On Water And Jobs, Wary Of Mileage Tax

Thursday, January 14, 2016

As California begins a new year and a hectic legislative session in Sacramento, a new Golden State Poll conducted by the Stanford University-based Hoover Institution finds California’s voters most concerned with the ongoing drought and the state’s economic recovery.

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