National Security Advisor (United States)
White House advisory position
The National Security Advisor, officially known as the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, serves as the top advisor to the President of the United States on national security issues. This person serves on the National Security Council within the President's Executive Office.
| Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs | |
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| Executive Office of the President | |
| Member of | National Security Council Homeland Security Council |
| Reports to | President of the United States |
| Appointer | President of the United States |
| Constituting instrument | National Security Presidential Memorandum[1] |
| Formation | 1953 |
| First holder | Robert Cutler |
| Deputy | Deputy National Security Advisor (DNSA) |
| Website | WhiteHouse.gov/NSC |
The National Security Advisor is appointed by the President, and does not have to be approved by the United States Senate. The current National Security Advisor is Jake Sullivan.
List of National Security Advisors
change| No. | Portrait | Name | Term of office[2] | President(s) served under | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | Days | ||||
| 1 | Robert Cutler (1895–1974) | March 23, 1953 | April 2, 1955 | 740 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
| 2 | Dillon Anderson (1906–1974) | April 2, 1955 | September 1, 1956 | 519 | ||
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William Harding Jackson (1901–1971)[3][4][5] | September 1, 1956 | January 7, 1957 | 128 | |
| 3 | Robert Cutler (1895–1974) | January 7, 1957 | June 24, 1958 | 533 | ||
| 4 | 
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Gordon Gray (1909–1982) | June 24, 1958 | January 13, 1961 | 934 | |
| 5 | 
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McGeorge Bundy (1919–1996) | January 20, 1961 | February 28, 1966 | 1865 | John F. Kennedy |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | ||||||
| 6 | 
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Walt Whitman Rostow (1916–2003) | April 1, 1966 | January 20, 1969 | 1025 | |
| 7 | 
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Henry Kissinger (1923–2023) | January 20, 1969 | November 3, 1975 | 2478 | Richard Nixon |
| Gerald Ford | ||||||
| 8 | 
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Brent Scowcroft (1925–2020) | November 3, 1975 (first appointment) |
January 20, 1977 | 444 | |
| 9 | 
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Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928–2017) | January 20, 1977 | January 20, 1981 | 1461 | Jimmy Carter |
| 10 | 
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Richard V. Allen (1936–2024) | January 21, 1981 | January 4, 1982 | 348 | Ronald Reagan |
| Acting | 
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James W. Nance (1921–1999)[6] | November 30, 1981 | January 4, 1982 | 37 | |
| 11 | 
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William P. Clark, Jr. (1931–2013) | January 4, 1982 | October 17, 1983 | 651 | |
| 12 | 
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Robert McFarlane (1937–2022) | October 17, 1983 | December 4, 1985 | 779 | |
| 13 | 
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John Poindexter (1936–) | December 4, 1985 | November 25, 1986 | 356 | |
| 14 | 
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Frank Carlucci (1930–2018) | December 2, 1986 | November 23, 1987 | 356 | |
| 15 | 
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Colin Powell (1937–2021) | November 23, 1987 | January 20, 1989 | 424 | |
| 16 | 
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Brent Scowcroft (1925–2020) | January 20, 1989 (second appointment) |
January 20, 1993 | 1461 | George H. W. Bush |
| 17 | 
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Anthony Lake (1939–) | January 20, 1993 | March 14, 1997 | 1514 | Bill Clinton |
| 18 | 
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Sandy Berger (1945–2015) | March 14, 1997 | January 20, 2001 | 1408 | |
| 19 | 
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Condoleezza Rice (1954–) | January 22, 2001[7] | January 25, 2005[7] | 1464 | George W. Bush |
| 20 | 
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Stephen Hadley (1947–) | January 26, 2005[7] | January 20, 2009 | 1455 | |
| 21 | 
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James L. Jones (1943–)[8] | January 20, 2009 | October 8, 2010 | 626 | Barack Obama |
| 22 | 
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Thomas E. Donilon (1955–)[9] | October 8, 2010 | July 1, 2013[10] | 997 | |
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Susan Rice (1964–)[10] | July 1, 2013[10] | January 20, 2017 | 1299 | |
| 24 | 
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Michael Flynn (1958–) | January 20, 2017 | February 13, 2017 | 24 | Donald Trump |
| Acting | 
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Keith Kellogg (1944–) | February 13, 2017 | February 20, 2017 | 7 | |
| 25 | 
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H. R. McMaster (1962–) | February 20, 2017 | April 9, 2018 | 412 | |
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John Bolton (1948–) | April 9, 2018 | September 10, 2019 | 520 | |
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Charles Kupperman (1950–) | September 10, 2019 | September 18, 2019 | 8 | |
| 27 | 
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Robert O’Brien (1966–) | September 18, 2019 | January 20, 2021 | 490 | |
| 28 | 
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Jake Sullivan (1976–)[11] | January 20, 2021 | Incumbent | 1415 | Joe Biden |
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Michael Waltz (1974–) | Taking office: January 20, 2025 |
−46 | Donald Trump | |
Denotes acting
References
change- ↑ "National Security Presidential Memorandum–4 of April 4, 2017" (PDF).
- ↑ "History of the National Security Council, 1947-1997". National Security Council. White House. August 1997. Archived from the original on March 6, 2008. Retrieved September 5, 2008.
- ↑ Burke, John P. (2009). Honest Broker?: The National Security Advisor and Presidential Decision Making. Texas A&M University Press. p. 26. ISBN 9781603441025.
- ↑ "Foreign Relations of the United States, 1955–1957, National Security Policy, Volume XIX". Department of State, Office of the Historian. Retrieved July 12, 2020.
- ↑ Lay, James S.; Johnson, Robert H. (1960). Organizational history of the National Security Council during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations. Washington, DC: Central Intelligence Agency. p. 40.
- ↑ Weisman, Steven R. (1982-01-02). "REAGAN REPLACING SECURITY ADVISER, OFFICIALS REPORT". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 The National Security Advisor and Staff: p. 33.
- ↑ "Key members of Obama-Biden national security team announced" (Press release). The Office of the President Elect. December 1, 2008. Archived from the original on December 1, 2008. Retrieved December 1, 2008.
- ↑ "Donilon to replace Jones as national security adviser". CNN. October 2010. Archived from the original on November 8, 2012. Retrieved October 8, 2010.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Scott Wilson and Colum Lynch (June 5, 2013). "National security team shuffle may signal more activist stance at White House". Washington Post. Archived from the original on October 25, 2017.
- ↑ "Biden to appoint Jake Sullivan as national security adviser". cbsnews.com.
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