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NSC Meetings in the Ford Administration

by David Coleman

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

Meeting Date Agenda Topics
8/10/1974 Presidential Transition
9/6/1974 Israeli Arms Request (National Security Study Memorandum 207)
9/14/1974 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
10/7/1974 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
10/18/1974 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
12/2/1974 Report on the President’s and Henry A. Kissinger’s Trips
1/23/1975 Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions
1/29/1975 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
3/5/1975 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Compliance
3/28/1975 Middle East and Vietnam
4/9/1975 Vietnam and Cambodia
4/24/1975 Indochina Evacuation
4/28/1975 Indochina Evacuation
5/12/1975 Mayaguez Seizure
5/13/1975 Seizure of American Ship by Cambodians
5/13/1975 Seizure of American Ship by Cambodians
5/14/1975 Seizure of American Ship by Cambodians
5/15/1975 Mayaguez Seizure
5/15/1975 Panama Canal Negotiations
5/15/1975 Middle East
6/27/1975 Angola
7/23/1975 Panama
7/25/1975 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
8/9/1975 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
9/17/1975 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
12/22/1975 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and Angola
1/8/1976 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Options
1/13/1976 Israeli Military Requirements
1/13/1976 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
1/19/1976 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
1/21/1976 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
2/11/1976 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
4/7/1976 Lebanon
4/22/1976 Shipbuilding
5/1/1976 Navy Requirements Study
5/11/1976 Africa
7/30/1976 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
8/9/1976 Strategic Stockpile
10/19/1976 Philippine Base Negotiations and Assistance to Zaire

  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: Ford, 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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