National Security Council - Obama Presidency Oral History Back National Security Council Index / Organizations Transcripts Jeffrey Bader ...relations at the State Department, the National Security Council [NSC], and the Office of the US Trad... ...the National Security Council [ NSC ], and the Office of the US Trad... ...Asia; director of Asian affairs at the National Security Council ; and director of the Stat... ...president of the United States at the National Security Council . In that capacity, he was th... ...issues, when you were at the National Security Council during the Obama administration. Th... ...I think that Tom Donilon, again, at NSC was one who pushed that hard. Larr... ...Nixon with Secretary Kissinger at the National Security Council . I think that set a pattern that no... ...leave this grand old building to the National Security Council . That said, certainly with Presiden... ...meetings that I encountered. One were National Security Council meetings at various levels and th... ...at various levels and the other were National Security Council dash National Economic Council, o... ...side. They're very distinct. For the National Security Council meetings, the structure was ver... ...1947 or '48 says who's a member of the National Security Council . It's been revised somewhat since... ...And final was what is called the NSC meeting—well, they're all NS... ...the NSC meeting—well, they're all NSC meetings—which the president chairs an... ...was a real structure to it. For an NSC meeting on a foreign policy issue—an... ...I believe, a statutory member of the National Security Council . So Rahm Emanuel occasionally... ...Okay? There was an integrity to the NSC process where that was—it just was no... ...that would have been Tom Donilon at the NSC ; Secretary Clinton did as well—tha... ...president of the United States at the National Security Council . In that capacity, he was a principa... ...and deputy principal meetings of the National Security Council I went to, we never went through ... ...interesting things about working on the National Security Council . I was a Foreign Service officer fo... ...Department culture. If you go to the National Security Council , your attitude changes pretty quickly... ...relationship to your work during your NSC years. A major event, obviously, at th... ...have a close friend who was at National Security Council , and I was closely identified with th... ... One nice thing about working at the National Security Council or the White House is, you never hav... ...going forward.” I can remember one National Security Council meeting that he chaired that ... ...Bob Gates as well. I think often in National Security Council meetings I thought of them as kind o... ...degree to which they—you know, before a National Security Council meeting, you weren't sure how it wa... Show more... Josh Bolten ...I mean a sort of issues, between the National Security Council , the National Economic Council, an... John Podesta ...were in the agencies; they were in the NSC [National Security Council], full... ...in the agencies; they were in the NSC [ National Security Council ], fully cleared and able to work wit... ...Department, Donilon and Jones going to NSC . So they were working in Washington... ...the agencies, the people going to the NSC or to the White House, they'r... ...about, was James Jones's appointment to NSC . Yes. He looked the part. He ha... ...were like principals' meetings of the NSC . They were the people around th... ...CIA agent, had run Middle East for the National Security Council , was part of that. And that sort o... ...would conduct a policy exercise at the NSC on Afghanistan and Iraq began durin... ...the West Wing to CEQ, [to] some extent NSC on some of the international questions... Show more... Geraldine Richmond ...I had with Jeffrey Bader, who was the NSC [National Security Council] Fellow fo... ...with Jeffrey Bader, who was the NSC [ National Security Council ] Fellow for Asia in the first tw... Craig Fugate ...stuff. We had gotten a call from the National Security Council staff, Could we provide a join... Harold Varmus ...and, even more importantly, on the National Security Council . Despite the OSTP's small budget an... Brian Mosteller ...the time. We had individuals from the National Security Council [NSC], the residence, the usher staff... ...from the National Security Council [ NSC ], the residence, the usher staff, th... ...he edited. Here's the memo that—the NSC is asking if he read this memo abou... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the LGBTQ Policy LGBTQ Policy go to the Education Education go to the Obama in the Senate Obama in the Senate go to the Chicago Chicago go to the Atlantic Relations Atlantic Relations