Important Figures in the NSC
Nixon Administration (1969-1973)
National Security Council:
President: Richard Nixon
Vice President: Spiro Agnew
Secretary of State: William Rogers
Secretary of Defense: Melvin Laird
Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (APNSA): Henry Kissinger
Director of CIA: Richard Helms
Chairman of Joint Chiefs: General Earle Wheeler / Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
Director of USIA: Frank Shakespeare
Director of Office of Emergency Preparedness: Brig. Gen. George Lincoln
National Security Council Review Group (established with NSDM 2)
APNSA: Henry A. Kissinger
Rep. of Secretary of State: John N. Irwin, II
Rep. of Secretary of Defense: David Packard, Bill Clements
Rep. of Chairman of Joint Chiefs: Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
Rep. of Director of CIA: Richard Helms, James R. Schlesinger, William E. Colby
National Security Council Senior Review Group (NSDM 85—replaces NSCRG/
NSDM 2)
APNSA: Henry A. Kissinger
Under Secretary of State: Elliott L. Richardson / John N. Irwin, II
Deputy Secretary of Defense: David Packard / Bill Clements
Director of Central Intelligence: Richard Helms
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: General Earle Wheeler / Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
Under Secretary’s Committee:
Under Secretary of State: Elliott L. Richardson / John N. Irwin, II
APNSA: Henry Kissinger
Deputy Secretary of Defense: David Packard / Bill Clements
Chairman of Joint Chiefs: Gen. Earle G. Wheeler / Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
Director of CIA: Richard M. Helms
Nixon/Ford Administration (1973-1977)
National Security Council:
President: Richard Nixon (1973-1974)
Gerald Ford (1974-1977)
Vice President: Gerald Ford (1973-1974)
Secretary of State: Henry Kissinger
Secretary of Defense: James Schlesinger / Donald Rumsfeld
APNSA: Henry Kissinger / Brent Scowcroft
Director of CIA: Richard Helms / James R. Schlesinger / William E. Colby / George H.W. Bush
Chairman of Joint Chiefs: Admiral Thomas H. Moorer / General George S. Brown
Director of United States Information Agency (USIA): James Keogh
Director of Office of Emergency Preparedness:
National Security Council Review Group (Senior Review Group):
APNSA: Henry Kissinger / Brent Scowcroft
Rep. of Secretary of State: William Casey
Rep. of Secretary of Defense: Lawrence Eagleburger
Rep. of Chairman of Joint Chiefs: B/Gen. Richard Bresnahan
Rep. of Director of CIA: Edward Proctor
Carter Administration (1977-1981)
National Security Council:
President: Jimmy Carter
Vice President: Walter Mondale
Secretary of State: Cyrus Vance
Secretary of Defense: Harold Brown
APNSA: Zbigniew Brzezinski
Director of CIA: Stansfield Turner
Chairman of Joint Chiefs: General George S. Brown / General David C. Jones
Secretary of the Treasury: Michael Blumenthal
Attorney General: Griffin Bell / Benjamin Civiletti
U.S. Representative to United Nations: Andrew Young / Donald McHenry
Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB):
Director of U.S. Arms Control Disarmament Agency (ACDA): Paul Warnke
Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers: Charles L. Schultze
Administrator of the Energy Research and Development Administration: Robert W. Fri
Reagan Administration (1981-1985)
National Security Council:
President: Ronald Reagan
Vice President: George H.W. Bush
Secretary of State: Alexander Haig / George Shultz
Secretary of Defense: Caspar Weinberger
APNSA: Richard Allen / William Clark / Robert MacFarlane
Director of CIA: William Casey
Chairman of Joint Chiefs: General David C. Jones / General John W. Vessey Jr.
NATIONAL SECURITY PLANNING GROUP
Vice President: George H.W. Bush
Secretary of State: Alexander Haig / George Shultz
Secretary of Defense: Caspar Weinberger
Director of CIA: William Casey
Chairman of Joint Chiefs: General David C. Jones / General John W. Vessey Jr.
APNSA: Richard Allen / William Clark / Robert MacFarlane
Reagan Administration (1985-1989)
National Security Council:
President: Ronald Reagan
Vice President: George H.W. Bush
Secretary of State: George Schultz
Secretary of Defense: Caspar Weinberger / Frank Carlucci
APNSA: Robert MacFarlane / John Poindexter / Frank Carlucci / Colin Powell
Director of CIA: William Casey / William Webster
Chairman of Joint Chiefs: General John W. Vessey Jr. / Admiral William Crowe
NATIONAL SECURITY PLANNING GROUP
Vice President: George H.W. Bush
Secretary of State: George Shultz
Secretary of Defense: Caspar Weinberger / Frank Carlucci
Director of CIA: William Casey / William Webster
Chairman of Joint Chiefs: General John W. Vessey Jr. / Admiral William Crowe
APNSA: Robert MacFarlane / John Poindexter / Frank Carlucci / Colin Powell