Editing Hoover Institution (section)

===Founding===
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[[File:President Hoover portrait.tif|thumb|left|[[Herbert Hoover]], the 31st [[President of the United States|U.S. president]], and founder of the Hoover Institution]]
In June 1919, [[Herbert Hoover]], then a wealthy engineer who was one of [[Stanford University]]'s first graduates, sent a telegram offering Stanford president [[Ray Lyman Wilbur]] $50,000 in order to assist the collection of primary materials related to [[World War I]], a project that became known as the Hoover War Collection. Assisted primarily by gifts from private donors, the Hoover War Collection flourished during its early years. In 1922, the collection became known as the Hoover War Library, now known as the [[Hoover Institution Library and Archives]], and includes a variety of rare and unpublished material, including the files of the ''[[Okhrana]]'' and a plurality of government documents produced during the war.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Duignan |first=Peter |date=2001 |title=The Library of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. Part 1: Origin and Growth |journal=Library History |volume=17 |pages=3–20 |doi=10.1179/lib.2001.17.1.3 |s2cid=144635878}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Hoover Timeline |url=https://www.hoover.org/about/timeline |access-date=June 19, 2022 |website=Hoover Institution |language=en |archive-date=June 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220622163919/https://www.hoover.org/about/timeline |url-status=live }}</ref> It was housed originally in the [[Stanford Library]], separate from the general stacks. In his memoirs, Hoover wrote:
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I did a vast amount of reading, mostly on previous wars, revolutions, and peace-makings of Europe and especially the political and economic aftermaths. At one time I set up some research at London, Paris, and Berlin into previous famines in Europe to see if there had developed any ideas on handling relief and pestilence. ... I was shortly convinced that gigantic famine would follow the present war. The steady degeneration of agriculture was obvious. ... I read in one of [[Andrew D. White|Andrew D. White's]] writings that most of the fugitive literature of comment during the [[French Revolution]] was lost to history because no one set any value on it at the time, and that without such material it became very difficult or impossible to reconstruct the real scene. Therein lay the origins of the Library on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hoover |first=Herbert |url=https://hoover.archives.gov/sites/default/files/research/ebooks/b1v1_full.pdf |title=The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: Years of Adventure, 1874–1920 |publisher=Macmillan |year=1951 |location=New York |pages=184–85 |access-date=June 26, 2022 |archive-date=May 31, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230531091223/https://hoover.archives.gov/sites/default/files/research/ebooks/b1v1_full.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
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