Study of the Hegemony of Parasitism - michaeljgoodnight.com

30, 1941, a new 14 story, 210 ft. building, costing $1.2
million, was dedicated for the Hoover Institution at
Stanford by President Seymour of Yale, a Romanesque
tower housing some 5 million documents, many of them
sealed. The Saturday Evening Post, Mar. 11, 1950,
noted that Edgar Rickard, director of Hoover Institution,
had raised $600,000 in 1937 towards the cost of the new
building.
Hoover stated that the purpose of the library was "to
expose through research the inequities of Communism",
although he had originally written it as "to demonstrate
the evils of the doctrine of Karl Marx." A later president of
Stanford, Wallace Sterling, re-edited this in 1960 to read
"to expand human knowledge, that human welfare may
thus be enhanced", a classic example of Orwell's
"doublethink". Sterling explained this act of censorship
by claiming, "We cannot have research with
predetermined conclusion". Sterling, also born in Ontario,
had been a member of the Hoover research staff from
1932-37, was awarded the Hoover Medal. He was with
the Ditchley Foundation 1962-76, and has served on the
staff of HEW and the Natl War College.
On July 21, 1957, the Hoover Library officially changed
its name to Hoover Institution on War, Peace and
Revolution. It receives funding from Lilly, Pew, and
Volker Funds, and the Sarah Mellon Scaife Foundation.
Ford Foundation gave it $255,000 in 1953. On July 6,
1943, the Lilly Fund had financed a three day conference
at the institution for Bertram Wolfe, New York; Raymond