National Security Council - Obama Presidency Oral History

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Frank Rose

...it. A senior person in the Trump NSC [ National Security Council ] called me up and asked me my thought...

Charles Kupchan

...director for European Affairs on the National Security Council [NSC] from 2014 to 2017. Prior to hi...
...on the National Security Council [ NSC ] from 2014 to 2017. Prior to his tim...
...director for European affairs with the National Security Council in the Clinton administration. He i...
...most part, I would say the ranks of the NSC were filled either by career civi...
...come to be offered the role with the National Security Council and as special assistant to th...

...who was the chief of staff of the National Security Council . He asked me whether I might b...
...I might be interested in working at the National Security Council , because a position was opening up...
...about the positions of others in the NSC and those in other agencies, I woul...
...what I found when I was at the National Security Council . We have about twenty-five minute...

Megan Smith

...the counterterrorism teams in the National Security Council , and Susan Rice's work with Lis...

Victoria Nuland

...strongly—she was my counterpart at the NSC [National Security Council]—both said...
...the very beginning, and I remember a National Security Council meeting—I think it was the night o...

Dan Feldman

...and humanitarian affairs on the National Security Council [NSC] staff during the [William “Bill...
...on the National Security Council [ NSC ] staff during the [William “Bill” J....
...me the billet to come and serve on the National Security Council staff in the Clinton administration. ...
...closely with him. But then, I left the NSC towards the tail end of 2000. I wen...
...the locus of decision making from the NSC to the State Department. We effectivel...

...with Doug [Douglas E.] Lute from the NSC —but at the State Department. In fact...
...of the interagency meetings that the NSC called. He would sometimes go wit...
...Holbrooke to Deputies Committee and Principals Committee meetings. But he wanted somebody els...
...clock, but then also somebody from the NSC . So Jeff [Jeffrey W.] Eggers was ther...
...stories about an Asia tsar in the National Security Council that would do China—try to integrat...

John Holdren

...Office of Management and Budget, the National Security Council , the National Economic Council, th...
...be multilayered. That is the way the National Security Council worked, by the way, in the Obam...
...way, in the Obama administration. The National Security Council is enormously influential. The tw...
...Office of Management and Budget and the National Security Council . Of course, the chief of staff is ...
...Office of Management and Budget and the National Security Council worked were, in many respects, th...

Jen Psaki

...the communications teams at, like, the National Security Council , or other communications people at th...
...who is the national security—the NSC [National Security Council...
...who is the national security—the NSC [ National Security Council ] spokesperson. Bernadette had been ...

Kimberly Teehee

...to move forward with it. But I had a National Security Council that deferred to us. I had Sam Power...
...to us. I had Sam Power, who was in the National Security Council at the time, who supported me in tha...
...final countries that signed on to it. National Security Council had wanted us to be in alignment wit...

Anthony Gardner

...director for European affairs for the National Security Council between 1994 and 1995. He currentl...
...career, even before your time in the National Security Council . What are some experiences from you...

Michael Daniel

...Council [HSC], and other folks on the National Security Council [NSC] who are working on cyber issues...
...on the National Security Council [ NSC ] who are working on cyber issues. S...
...the policy councils, in this case the National Security Council , negotiate with all the differen...
...the national security side. The HSC and NSC kick off a process to look at, Okay...
...to take the jump and move over to the NSC , so I start there in June o...

...would make it work; because, again, the NSC has certain structures about it tha...
...Which is, here you have a role; the NSC traditionally deals with US governmen...
...to operate within the structure of the NSC , but how is it actually going t...
...I'm curious if you've ever gotten an NSC person to tell you that they've had a...
...for anybody that's working on the National Security Council staff because those are difficult...
...in, maybe, the intel director at the NSC . So there's no home for it. There's n...
...the cybersecurity directorate on the NSC start developing a response to th...
...that don't have a home anywhere on the NSC , and they were vaguely technolog...
...of it was also just the way that the NSC was set up at the time, which was tha...
...set up at the time, which was that the NSC did not really have a directorate tha...
...implications and had no home on the NSC in an org chart, so you had to fin...
...You bet. Is there a home for it in the NSC ? No, so of course it ends up in th...
...with the Asia directorate on the NSC and other parts of the government t...
...anybody from Commerce or State or the NSC was meeting with the Chinese, this wa...
...what my role was at the National Security Council was to help drive towards a consensu...
...that we were doing that on the NSC staff, and that is not the job you wan...
...and that is not the job you want the NSC doing. When you've got situations wher...
...it was classified. Also, because the NSC has this tendency of wanting t...
...That was actually a big deal for the NSC because that was just not how w...
...legislative process, but then from the NSC standpoint of working on the substanc...
...sector. In fact, I pretty much gave the NSC general counsel hives from the amoun...
...it wasn't a typical role for the NSC , which, it's really not designed t...
...one of those sessions that's an actual NSC meeting that the president has in th...
...Room. You've got all of the senior National Security Council officials there, and we've got th...
...the little things that you learn as an NSC veteran. You can always tell the ne...
...of my career there, or time on the NSC . Because we worked on a lot o...

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