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NSC Meetings of the Carter Administration

by David Coleman

Here’s a list of all the official National Security Council meetings during the Carter administration.1

Meeting Date Agenda Topics
1/22/1977 Vice President’s Trip
Presidential Use of National Security Council
Europe
Japan
1/27/1977 Defense Issues – Fiscal Year 1978 Budget
2/23/1977 Middle East – Results of Secretary Vance’s Trip
Israel
3/3/1977 Southern Africa – US Policy and Presidential Directive 5
Namibia
Rhodesia
South Africa
3/22/1977 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks – Negotiating Options and Issues
National Security Council Intelligence Community
USSR
4/27/1977 Korea – US Troop Withdrawals and Presidential Directive 12
9/6/1977 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks – Negotiating Options and Issues
USSR
2/23/1978 Horn of Africa – Foreign Policy Decisions
Ethiopia
Somalia
4/11/1978 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks – Secretary Vance’s Trip to Moscow
USSR
NATO
5/10/1978 Department of Defense Consolidated Guidance
Cuba
Indian Ocean
Defense Budget
Intelligence
Military Posture
8/15/1978 US-Soviet Relations
9/1/1978 Middle East – Camp David Summit Options
Israel
Egypt
9/2/1978 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks – Negotiating Options and Issues
USSR
National Security Council Intelligence Community
10/6/1978 Africa – Overall US Policy
Rhodesia
12/18/1978 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
USSR
1/3/1979 Iran
2/16/1979 Sino-Vietnamese Conflict
Iran
China Peoples Republic
2/19/1979 Middle East Issues – Camp David II
Egypt
Israel
3/5/1979 Yemen
6/4/1979 Strategic Arms Policy and US-USSR Relations
Strategic Forces
6/5/1979 Strategic Arms Policy and US-USSR Relations
Strategic Forces
9/5/1979 MX Missile Basing Issues
Strategic Forces
Nuclear Weapons
9/17/1979 Soviets in Cuba Military Posture
10/19/1979 Iran
Central America
Caribbean
11/20/1979 Iran
Military Operations
12/4/1979 Iran
12/4/1979 Iran
12/19/1979 Iran
12/28/1979 Iran
Afghanistan
Pakistan
Nuclear Matters
Peoples Republic of China
India
1/2/1980 Iran
Christopher Mission to Afghanistan
Brown Trip to China
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
Pakistan
Foreign Travel
Military Assistance
USSR
China Peoples Republic
3/18/1980 Iran
3/22/1980 Iran – Held at Camp David
3/31/1980 Iran
4/7/1980 Iran
4/11/1980 Iran Rescue Mission
4/15/1980 Iran Rescue Mission
9/12/1980 Security Framework Issues
Iran
Persian Gulf
9/24/1980 Iran
Iraq
9/29/1980 Iran
Iraq
Saudi Request for Military Assistance
12/7/1980 Poland
USSR
12/17/1980 Basic Strategies
Military Posture

  1. The topics listed were those designated by the NSC itself and may not reflect the full breadth of any particular discussion during a meeting. ↩

Filed Under: NSC Meetings Tagged With: Carter, NSC

About David Coleman

Historian. Author of The Fourteenth Day: JFK and the Aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis and editor of The Presidential Recordings: John F. Kennedy vols. 4-6. Currently on sabbatical.

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