Hoover Touted Access to Mattis, Trump Team in Fundraising Plea
- Institution can help influence ‘world history,’ e-mail says
- Mattis has been a senior fellow on defense at Hoover since ’13
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The Hoover Institution, a think-tank affiliated with Stanford University, touted its ties to retired General James Mattis and members of President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team in a fund-raising appeal to potential donors.
“The Hoover Institution now has an opportunity to influence the course of American and world history in a way that no one could have foreseen,” institution director Thomas Gilligan wrote in a Dec. 27 “year-end greeting” seeking tax-deductible contributions. “Hoover Fellow General James Mattis has been nominated to be Secretary of Defense. He will no doubt rely on his colleagues at Hoover who already have extensive military and national security experience.”