"The Hoover Institution is a unit of Stanford University
[3] but has its own board of overseers.
[4] It is located on the campus. Its mission statement outlines its basic tenets: representative government, private enterprise, peace, personal freedom, and the safeguards of the American system.
[5] Although the Institution is often described as politically conservative
[6][7][8] or as
Republican-leaning, directors and others associated with it resist this description, saying that the Institution is not partisan and that its goal is "to advance ideas of supporting freedom and free enterprise"
aka the idiots who got us into Afghanistan & Iraq.....................