The Nixon Administration National Security Council
Participants

Oral History Roundtable, The NSC Project, December 8, 1998

Read the roundtable introduction, or download the entire transcript (PDF: 194 kb).

Daniel Davidson
Member of the U.S. delegation to the Paris Peace Conference in 1968 and member of the NSC staff in 1969. He currently practices law at Spiegel & McDiarmid.

Gen. Andrew Goodpaster
Transition adviser to President-elect Nixon. As Staff Secretary to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, General Goodpaster was responsible for supporting the President's day-to-day engagement in national security issues. General Goodpaster later served as Supreme Allied Commander, Europe. He currently serves as Chairman of the George C. Marshall Foundation and Senior Fellow and Chairman Emeritus of the Eisenhower Institute.

Michael Guhin
NSC staff member from 1969 to 1974, 1976 and 1981 to 1983. Guhin also served in senior positions in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and the Department of State. He presently serves as U.S. Fissile Material Negotiator and Cutoff Coordinator at the Department of State.

Wilfrid Kohl
National security scholar, NSC staff member for European policy from 1970 to 1971, and analyst of the Nixon national security process. He is currently Research Professor of International Relations at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University.

Samuel Lewis
Career Foreign Service Officer, NSC staff aide for Latin America from 1968 to 1969, and official in charge of policy planning for Latin America at the Department of State thereafter. Lewis later served as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations, Ambassador to Israel, President of the U.S. Institute of Peace, and Director of Policy Planning at the Department of State.

Winston Lord
Member of the NSC staff from 1969 to 1973, and special assistant to Dr. Kissinger on China policy from 1970 to 1973. Lord later served as Director of Policy Planning at the Department of State, President of the Council on Foreign Relations, Ambassador to China and Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian Affairs.

Richard Moose
Staff Secretary of the NSC from January to August 1969 and author of The President and the Management of National Security. Moose later served as a senior staff member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Managing Director of Shearson Lehman Brothers, and Undersecretary of State for Management. He is currently President of the Institute for Public Research.

Philip Odeen
Member of the NSC staff from 1971 to 1973 specializing in defense issues and author of National Security Policy Organization in Perspective. He currently serves as Executive Vice President of TRW.

Richard Solomon
East Asia specialist who served on the NSC staff from 1971 to 1976. Solomon later served as Director of the Political Science Department at the RAND Corporation, Director of Policy Planning at the Department of State, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian Affairs, and Ambassador to the Philippines. He is currently President of the U.S. Institute of Peace.

Helmut Sonnenfeldt
State Department official and longtime Kissinger associate who served as senior NSC aide on Soviet affairs from 1969 to 1974. Sonnenfeldt subsequently held the position of Counselor at the Department of State. Since leaving the Department of State, he has engaged in consulting, writing, and lecturing on international issues.

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