| Title: |
Role of the National Security Adviser Oral History Roundtable
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Brookings Institution. Foreign Policy Studies Program.
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| Collection: |
Role of the National Security Adviser Oral History
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| Description: |
Since the Kennedy administration, the assistant to the president for national security affairs (a.k.a. "the national security adviser") has played two roles: manager ("honest broker") of the day-to-day policy process and substantive policy adviser. Presidents clearly want both, but the roles are in tension. Specifically, an assistant who pushes his own views too strongly risks losing the trust of a secretary of state (or defense) who has a different opinion. Some national security advisers have balanced these roles adroitly. Others have not, generating discord within the president's senior advisory team.
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| Extent: |
108 pages
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| URL: |
http://www.brookings.edu/fp/research/projects/nsc/transcripts/19991025.pdf
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1999 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Rostow, Walt W., 1916-2003
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1916
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Speaker occupation: |
Advisor; Government official
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| Age at speaking: |
83
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| Document location: |
Washington, DC
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| Document date: |
25-Oct-1999
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| Interviewer: |
Daalder, Ivo H.; Destler, I. M.
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| Organizations discussed: |
U.S. National Security Council
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| Locations discussed: |
District of Columbia; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
District of Columbia; National security; National security--Government policy; National security--Law and legislation--United States; National security--United States; North America; Oral history; U.S. National Security Council; United States
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| ASP release: |
2007-01
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| Document code: |
OHI0034267-28850
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