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National Security Council

Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 20504

Phone, 202-456-1414
Members:                                            

The President                                     George W. Bush
The Vice President                                Dick Cheney
The Secretary of State                            Colin L. Powell
The Secretary of Defense                          Donald H. Rumsfeld

Statutory Advisers:                                 

Director of Central Intelligence                  George J. Tenet
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff                   Gen. Richard B. Myers, 
                                                          USAF

Standing Participants:                              

The Secretary of the Treasury                     John W. Snow
U.S. Representative to the United Nations         John D. Negroponte
Chief of Staff to the President                   Andrew H. Card, Jr.
Assistant to the President for National Security  Condoleezza Rice
        Affairs
Assistant to the President for Economic Policy    Stephen Friedman

Officials:                                          

Assistant to the President for National Security  Condoleezza Rice
        Affairs
Assistant to the President for National Security  Steven Hadley
        Affairs and Deputy National Security 
        Adviser
Executive Secretary                               Gregory Schulte

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The National Security Council was established by the National Security 
Act of 1947, as amended (50 U.S.C. 402). The Council was placed in the 
Executive Office of the President by Reorganization Plan No. 4 of 1949 
(5 U.S.C. app.).
    The National Security Council is chaired by the President. Its 
statutory members, in addition to the President, are the Vice President 
and the Secretaries of State and Defense. The Chairman of the Joint 
Chiefs of Staff is the statutory military adviser to the Council, and 
the Director of Central Intelligence is its intelligence adviser. The 
Secretary of the Treasury, the U.S. Representative to the United 
Nations, the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, 
the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, and the Chief of 
Staff to the President are invited to all meetings of the Council. The 
Attorney General and the Director of National Drug Control Policy are 
invited to attend meetings pertaining to their


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jurisdictions; other officials are invited, as appropriate.
    The Council advises and assists the President in integrating all 
aspects of national security policy as it affects the United States--
domestic, foreign, military, intelligence, and economic--in conjunction 
with the National Economic Council.

For further information, contact the National Security Council, Old 
Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 20504. Phone, 202-456-1414.

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