    [United States Government Manual]
    [June 01, 2007]
    [Pages 92-93]
    [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                            Condoleezza Rice
    The Secretary of Defense                          Robert M. Gates

    Statutory Advisers:

    Director of National Intelligence                 Mike McConnell
    Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff                   Gen. Peter Pace, USMC

    Standing Participants:

    The Secretary of the Treasury                     Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
    Chief of Staff to the President                   Joshua B. Bolton
    Counsel to the President                          Fred Fielding
    Assistant to the President for National Security  Stephen J. Hadley
            Affairs
    Assistant to the President for Economic Policy    Allan B. Hubbard

    Officials:

    Assistant to the President for National Security  Stephen J. Hadley
            Affairs
    Assistant to the President for National Security  Jack D. Crouch II
            Affairs and Deputy National Security
            Adviser
    Executive Secretary                               V. Phillip V. Lago

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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 the Central Intelligence Agency 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.

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    For further information, contact the National Security Council, Old
    Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 20504. Phone, 202-456-1414.

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