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...
