Hoover Institution Newsletter Spring 2004
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HOOVER INSTITUTION SPRING 2004 NEWSLETTERNEWSLETTER FEDERAL OFFICIALS, JOURNALISTS, HOOVER FELLOWS HOOVER, SIEPR SHARE DISCUSS DOMESTIC AND WORLD AFFAIRS $5 MILLION GIFT AT BOARD OF OVERSEERS MEETING IN HONOR OF GEORGE P. SHULTZ ecretary of State Colin Powell dis- he Annenberg Foundation has cussed the importance of human granted Stanford University $5 Srights,democracy,and the rule of law Tmillion to honor former U.S. secre- when he addressed the Hoover Institution tary of state George P. Shultz. Board of Overseers and guests on Febru- The Hoover Institution will receive $4 ary 23 in Washington, D.C. million to endow the Walter and Leonore Powell told the group of more than 200 Annenberg Fund in honor of George P. who gathered to hear his postluncheon talk Shultz, which will support the Annenberg that worldwide political and economic Distinguished Visiting Fellow. conditions present not only problems but The Stanford Institute for Economic also great opportunities to share American Policy Research (SIEPR) will receive $1 values. million for the George P. Shultz Disserta- Other speakers during the day included tion Support Fund, which supports empir- Dinesh D’Souza, the Robert and Karen ical research by graduate students working Rishwain Research Fellow, who discussed on dissertations oriented toward problems Colin Powell the future of American conservativism. of economic policy. Reflecting on the legacy of Ronald ing values and virtues that have sustained “In all of his capacities, George has Reagan’s presidency, he pointed to endur- American society for more than 200 years. given unstintingly to this institution over continued on page 8 continued on page 4 PRESIDENT BUSH NAMES HENRY S. ROWEN • INSIDE • TO PANEL ON WEAPONS OF PAPERS OF T. V. S OONG MASS DESTRUCTION TO BE OPENED . 2 GEORGE P. S HULTZ PRESENTS oover Institution senior fellow chusetts Institute of THIRD KISSINGER LECTURE Henry S. Rowen was named by Te chnolog y s ince AT LIBRARY OF CONGRESS . 3 President Bush in Feburary as a 1990, completed the H IALL ERGUSON member of the Commission on Intelli- presidential appoint- N F , VICTOR DAVIS HANSON, gence Capabilities of the United States ments to the panel. The nine-member A. MICHAEL SPENCE NAMED Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. independent and bipartisan group includes SENIOR FELLOWS . 12 His appointment, along with that of cochairs Charles S. Robb and Judge Lau- Charles M. Vest, president of the Massa- continued on page 10 HOOVER INSTITUTION See our web site's new look—now with easier navigation. ONLINEONLINE Visit us for daily news and updates at www.hoover.org PAPERS OF T. V. S OONG TO BE OPENED FOR FIRST TIME he family of one of the most influen- private family archives. tial figures in modern Chinese Michael Feng, grandson Thistory has decided to open fully,for of T. V. Soong, hand- the first time, its historical papers for carried these newly research in the Hoover Institution available materials from Michael Feng (left), grandson of T. V. Soong, was joined by Archives. New York to the Hoover Elliot Feng (center), great-grandson of T. V. Soong, and Leo T. V. Soong, foreign minister of China Institution at Stanford Soong (right), nephew of T. V. Soong, who screened the during World War II, worked closely with on March 12, 2004. closed collection for the family in preparation for opening the documents April 26, 2004. United States president Franklin D. Roo- In these papers T.V. sevelt to defeat Japan, negotiated with Soong, as an eyewitness to history, and in their citations will recall the great Moscow to reestablish Chinese sovereignty describes such turning points as the abduc- contributions of T.V.Soong to the modern over Manchuria, and represented China at tion of Chiang Kai-shek in 1936 (called the history of China,” commented Professor the founding of the United Nations. His Sian incident), the dismissal of General Lewis. Hoover Institution senior fellow papers consist of three parts. Joseph Stilwell, and the framing of the Ramon Myers explained that these papers The first part, 39 boxes, has been avail- Sino-Soviet Treaty of 1945. cover the “debates with Winston Churchill, able for research in the Hoover Archives The newly available papers include rare John Davis and many others” and that the since its acquisition as a gift from the family personal correspondence among the Soong files “show Soong to be a loyal and brilliant in the 1970s. That landmark collection has family, including the famed sisters, official representing his country while been used extensively. According to Stan- Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Madame Sun advancing its national interests and strate- ford professor of Chinese politics John Yat -sen, and Madame H. H. K’ung. In an gic thinking.” Lewis,“For the research on my coauthored effort to correct pervasive yeshi-style Once they have been cataloged, these book Uncertain Partners, I was privileged rumors about the family’s personal previously unknown documents will be to draw on the files of the Soong-Stalin finances, the decision was made to open made available, on April 26, 2004, for meetings from June to August 1945 for our private financial papers as well. Although research in the reading room of the Hoover best understanding of Stalin’s postwar private individuals rarely include personal Institution Archives, which is open to the plans for Asia.” financial data in archival donations, T. V. public free of charge. Information can be The second part, 19 boxes, was restricted Soong’s heirs chose transparency to found on the web site: www.hoover.org/hila during the lifetime of Soong’s sister counter unwarranted speculation. or by contacting the head of reference, Madame Chiang Kai-shek out of respect “A l l f u t u r e h i s t o r i a ns of China will mine Carol Leadenham at leadenham@hoover. for her privacy. But when Madame died on these marvelous additions to the archives stanford.edu. October 23, 2003, at age 105, the heirs decided, in the interest of fostering a more EVALUATION BOOT CAMP FOR DEPARTMENT OF accurate understanding of their homeland, EDUCATION GIVEN BY CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON to open the closed 19 boxes. There is a general lack of documentation EDUCATION OUTCOMES on Chinese history. Jonathan Spence, who he Center for Research on Education CREDO director Margaret Raymond, a teaches modern Chinese history at Yale, Outcomes (CREDO) hosted an Hoover research fellow, noted that the wrote recently in the New York Times Book TEvaluation Boot Camp for the workshop combined practical knowledge Review (February 29, 2004) that this gap in United States Department of Education to and big-picture perspectives. the archival record has left much history “in teach a select number of staff about CREDO, whose mission is to improve the hands of Chinese composers of the program evaluation February 25–27 in research and evaluation practice in the area kind of unofficial histories that the Chinese Washing ton, D.C. of educational policy, was established at the call yeshi (literally wild or undocumented The program offered participants an effi- Hoover Institution to improve the body of histories).” cient way to become better advocates, plan- empirical evidence about education reform To counter such unofficial histories,, the ners, and consumers of program evalua- and student performance at the primary family has since augmented the existing tions. The workshop emphasized both skill and secondary levels. For more information official files at Hoover with a third part: building and the strategic use of evaluation on CREDO, see http://credo.stanford.edu/. more than 2,000 documents from their evidence in policy decisions. 2 GEORGE P. S HULTZ PRESENTS THIRD ANNUAL KISSINGER ered in October 2001 by Henry Kissinger himself. LECTURE AT LIBRARY OF CONGRESS The Kissinger Chair establishes an impor- tant focus at the Library of Congress for research and discussion of foreign policy and particularly welcome this opportu- ing. Shultz was speaking in his capacity as the international affairs. nity to speak under the mantle of Kissinger Lecturer. (See http://www.loc.gov/ Shultz is the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford “IHenry Kissinger, at the venerable loc/kluge/kluge-shultz.html for broadcast of Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institu- Library of Congress, and in Washington, D.C. speech.) tion. He has held four cabinet-level posts: U.S. Beyond the honor,the reason is my conviction The establishment of the Henry Alfred secretary of state, U.S. secretary of the Trea- that we are at one of those special moments in Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and Interna- sury, U.S. secretary of labor, and director of history: the topic of the day is Iraq and tional Relations at the Library of Congress in the Office of Management and Budget. He weapons not accounted for; but the implica- 1999 created an endowment to provide for a also held the Jack Steele Parker Professorship tions of actions in Iraq for the world and for Kissinger Scholar and a Kissinger Lecturer. in International Economics at Stanford Uni- our future go far beyond this immediate case.” The Kissinger Lecturer, chosen annually by versity’s Graduate School of Business and was So began Hoover fellow George P.Shultz as Librarian of Congress James H. Billington, president of Bechtel Corporation from 1974 he delivered the third annual Kissinger may be of any nationality and is an individual to 1982. Lecture, titled “A Changed World,”on Febru- who has achieved distinction in the field of An adapted version of the Kissinger Lecture ary 11 in the Coolidge Auditorium of the foreign affairs. was published on March 29 in the Wall Street Library of Congress’s Thomas Jefferson Build- The inaugural Kissinger Lecture was deliv- Journal.