The Bush Administration National Security Council
Participants

Oral History Roundtable, The NSC Project, April 29, 1999

Read the roundtable introduction, or download the entire transcript (PDF: 189 kb).

Andrew H. Card, Jr.
Special assistant to the president for intergovernmental affairs, National Security Council, 1983-87; deputy assistant to the president and director, Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, 1988-89; assistant to the president and deputy chief of staff, 1989-92; secretary, Department of Transportation,1992-93; president and CEO, American Automobile Manufacturers Association, 1993-98; and vice president for government relations, General Motors Corporation, 1999-present.

David Gompert
Various positions, Department of State, 1973-83; corporate executive, 1983-1990; special assistant to the president and senior director for European and Soviet affairs, National Security Council, 1990-93; president, RAND Corporation Europe, present.

Richard N. Haass
Special assistant to the president and senior director for Near East and South Asian affairs, National Security Council, 1989-93; and vice president and director of foreign policy studies, The Brookings Institution, 1996-present.

Arnold Kanter
Special assistant to the president and senior director for defense policy and arms control, National Security Council, 1989-91; under secretary for political affairs, Department of State, 1991-93; and senior fellow, Forum for International Policy, 1993-present.

Robert Kimmitt
Deputy assistant to the president for national security affairs and executive secretary to the National Security Council, 1983-85; general counsel, Department of the Treasury, 1985-87; under secretary for political affairs, Department of State, 1989-91; ambassador to Germany, 1991-93; managing director, Lehman Brothers, 1993-97; partner, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, 1997-2000; and vice chairman of the board and chief operating officer, Commerce One, 2000-present.

Roger Porter
Special assistant to the president and executive secretary, President's Economic Policy Board, 1974-77; deputy assistant to the president and director, White House Office of Policy Development, 1981-85; assistant to the president for economic and domestic policy, National Security Council, 1989-93; and professor of business and government, Harvard University, 1985-89, 1993-present.

Peter Rodman
Special assistant to the national security adviser and member, National Security Council, 1969-77; fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1977-83; director of policy planning, Department of State, 1984-86; deputy assistant to the president for national security affairs, National Security Council, 1986-87; special assistant to the president and counselor, National Security Council, 1987-90; fellow, Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute, 1990-93; director of Middle East and Eurasian studies, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1994-95; and director of national security programs, The Nixon Center, 1995-present.

Dennis Ross
Various positions, Department of State and Department of Defense; 1980-84; executive director, Berkeley-Stanford program on Soviet international behavior, 1984-86; director for Near East and South Asian affairs, National Security Council, 1986-88; director of policy planning, Department of State, 1989-92; special Middle East coordinator, Department of State, 1993-present.

Philip Zelikow
Arms control negotiator and secretariat staff member, Department of State, 1985-89; director for European and Soviet affairs, National Security Council, 1989-91; arms control negotiator, Department of State, 1991; associate professor of public policy, Harvard University, 1991-98; and director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs and White Burkett Miller Professor of History, University of Virginia, 1998-present.

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