Word: nsc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After pondering the news during his routine half hour of exercises, Ford discussed it with Lieut. General Brent Scowcroft, deputy director of the National Security Council. At noon, the President met for 45 minutes in the Cabinet Room with two members of the NSC, Kissinger and Defense Secretary Schlesinger, and with CIA Director William Colby and Air Force Chief of Staff General David C. Jones; Jones was substituting for Joint Chiefs' Chairman General George S. Brown, who was in Europe on a NATO inspection trip...
...this first NSC meeting on the Mayaguez incident, and at sessions that were to follow, Kissinger and Schlesinger argued over how much force?in particular, how many Marines?the U.S. should be prepared to use to free the ship and its crew. Schlesinger urged that the U.S. should move cautiously to avoid overreacting, and should use only the minimum strength necessary to get back the ship and crew. But Kissinger maintained that the U.S. had to employ enough force to give the operation broad political impact in Asia, particularly as regards North Korea, which has lately sounded more belligerent toward...
...respect to national security." In the ensuing years the term national security has come to be seen as a question of military preparedness and related foreign policy planning. General Maxwell Taylor, retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, thinks it is now time that the definition and the NSC were broadened...
...better to anticipate and forecast the effects of such dislocations in resources, Taylor proposes creation of a National Policy Council, which would be an expansion of the NSC from its present four members - the President, Vice President, Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense - to seven, adding the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and a presidentially appointed representative of the economic sector. Policy planning and research would be broadened and proceed along four lines: foreign/milItary, economic, fiscal /monetary and public welfare. The four panels would work with relevant departments in Government and offer recommendations...
...fall of Dienbienphu, when the headlines in the New York Times--look 'em up--were "Nobody knows what he will do." I was at a press conference in Chicago; I said, "I am sorry to say that I do know what he is going to do. The NSC at this moment is meeting to ratify the mining of Haiphong which is probably underway at this moment." I'd been waiting for that for two and a half years, I'd done everything I could for two and a half years to prevent it by informing the public, and had totally...