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NSC Meetings of the George H.W. Bush Administration

by David Coleman

Here is a list of all the official National Security Council meetings of the George H.W. Bush administration.1

Meeting Date Agenda Topics
2/10/1989 Afghanistan
2/21/1989 Covert Action Review
3/14/1989 International Debt
Economics
International Finance
3/14/1989 Panama
Nicaragua
Afghanistan
3/15/1989 Fighter support Experimental Project
Japan
3/18/1989 Fighter Support Experimental project
Japan
3/29/1989 Middle East Peace Process
3/30/1989 Western Europe
Eastern Europe
4/4/1989 US Relations with Western Europe and Eastern Europe
4/5/1989 Review of National Security Review 3 Regarding US and USSR Relations
4/14/1989 Review of Cambodia Policy
4/18/1989 National Security Review 12 Section II Regarding Strategic Nuclear Deterrence
4/28/1989 Panama
5/4/1989 Covert Action
5/4/1989 Moscow Ministerial
5/8/1989 Panama
5/15/1989 Counter Narcotics in Peru
5/17/1989 National Security Review 12 – Sections II and III
US Defense Strategy for 1990
5/23/1989 Angola
5/25/1989 Counter Narcotics in Peru
Review of National Security Review 12 – Section IV Regarding Arms Control Implications of Defense Strategy
5/26/1989 Covert Action
6/15/1989 Strategic Arms Reduction Talks
Arms Control
6/23/1989 Persian Gulf
7/25/1989 Covert Action Annual Review
8/1/1989 Hostage Situation
8/2/1989 Annual Review of Covert Action Programs
8/2/1989 Hostage Situation
8/21/1989 International Drug Strategy Paper
Counter Narcotics
9/11/1989 Savannah River Restarts
Tritium
Arms Control
Stockpiles Nuclear
9/14/1989 Chemical Weapons
Arms Control
9/27/1989 Nuclear Testing Deliberations
Arms Control
Verification
10/3/1989 Poland
Economic Assistance
10/18/1989 Panama
10/19/1989 Panama
10/24/1989 Classified Subject
11/30/1989 Malta Summit
USSR
12/5/1989 Malta Follow Up
Arms Control
Summit
12/18/1989 Libya
1/9/1990 Covert Action Program
1/9/1990 TV Marti
Broadcasting
Cuba
1/16/1990 Conventional Forces in Europe Initiative
Arms Control
1/17/1990 Panama
1/18/1990 International Economic Policy
1/22/1990 Conventional Forces in Europe Initiative
Arms Control
Germany Federal Republic
2/1/1990 Arms Control Issues
Moscow Ministerial
2/9/1990 East Asia Strategy
National Security Review on Philippines Military Base Access
2/12/1990 Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Strategic Export Controls
Eastern Europe
3/29/1990 Covert Action
3/29/1990 Fiber Optic Systems for the USSR
4/17/1990 Lithuania
USSR
4/23/1990 Lithuania
USSR
Sanctions
4/30/1990 Cape York
Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Strategic Export Controls
4/30/1990 Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Strategic Export Controls
5/10/1990 Angola
Cambodia
Jordan
6/7/1990 Strategic Arms Reduction Talks
Defense Policy
Space Issues
7/16/1990 Nuclear Matters
7/25/1990 Cape York
Space Policy
USSR
8/2/1990 Persian Gulf Crisis
Iraq
Kuwait
8/3/1990 Persian Gulf Crisis
Iraq
Kuwait
8/4/1990 Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait
Persian Gulf
8/5/1990 Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait
Persian Gulf
8/6/1990 Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait
Persian Gulf
8/15/1990 Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait
Persian Gulf
8/29/1990 Persian Gulf Crisis
Economic Action Plan
Iraq
9/20/1990 Oil Supply
Energy
Persian Gulf
10/9/1990 Nuclear Matters
Middle East and Gulf
Proliferation
12/17/1990 Annual Review of Covert Action Programs
4/30/1991 Persian Gulf
6/6/1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Talks
10/18/1991 Pan Am 103
Terrorism
11/19/1991 Pan Am 103
Terrorism
Libya
Great Britain
12/20/1991 Covert Action Programs
Intelligence
3/25/1992 Intelligence Capabilities/1992-2005
5/28/1992 Haiti
6/10/1992 Nuclear Testing
12/3/1992 Somalia

  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: Bush 41, 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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