    [United States Government Manual]
    [June 01, 2002]
    [Pages 93-94]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

    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                     Paul H. O'Neill
    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    Larry Lindsey

    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                               Steve Biegun

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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

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    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 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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