[United States Government Manual]
[September 15, 2009]
[Pages 90-91]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



National Security Council

Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 20504
Phone, 202-456-1414. Internet, www.whitehouse.gov/nsc.
Members:                                            

THE PRESIDENT                                     Barack H. Obama
The Vice President                                Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
The Secretary of State                            Hillary Rodham Clinton
The Secretary of Defense                          Robert M. Gates

Statutory Advisers:                                 

Director of National Intelligence                 Dennis C. Blair
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff                   Adm. Michael G. 
                                                          Mullen, USN

Standing Participants:                              

The Secretary of the Treasury                     Timothy F. Geithner
Chief of Staff to the President                   Rahm I. Emanuel
Counsel to the President                          Gregory B. Craig
National Security Advisor                         James L. Jones, Jr.
Assistant to the President for Economic Policy    Lawrence H. Summers

Officials:                                          

Assistant to the President for National Security  James L. Jones, Jr.
      Affairs
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Assistant to the President for National Security  Thomas E. Donlion
        Affairs and Deputy National Security 
        Adviser

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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.

For further information, contact the National Security Council, Old 
Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 20504. Phone, 202-456-1414. 
Internet, www.whitehouse.gov/nsc.

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