    [United States Government Manual]
    [June 15, 2003]
    [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                     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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