Here’s a list of all the official NSC meetings during the Kennedy administration. It does not include the meetings of the Executive Committee (ExComm), which are listed separately here.1
Meeting Date | Agenda Topics |
---|---|
2/1/1961 | Defense Budget |
National Security Council System | |
2/9/1961 | World Developments |
Crisis Areas National Security Policies | |
3/29/1961 | North Atlantic |
4/22/1961 | Cuba |
Defense Policy | |
Nuclear Testing | |
Space Policy | |
4/27/1961 | Laos |
Vietnam | |
Emergency Freedom Fund | |
Cuba | |
National Security Council System | |
Legal Issues | |
4/29/1961 | Laos |
Vietnam | |
5/1/1961 | Laos |
5/2/1961 | Laos |
Nuclear Testing | |
5/5/1961 | Iran |
Korea | |
Cuba | |
Dominican Republic | |
Haiti | |
British Guiana | |
Southeast Asia | |
5/19/1961 | Nuclear Testing |
Iran | |
Vietnam | |
6/13/1961 | Europe |
Presidential Travel | |
Korea | |
6/29/1961 | Kuwait |
Berlin | |
Laos | |
7/13/1961 | Berlin |
7/19/1961 | Berlin |
7/20/1961 | Nuclear Weapons |
9/5/1961 | Nuclear Testing |
10/13/1961 | National Security Council System |
Yugoslavia | |
Poland | |
11/2/1961 | Nuclear Testing |
11/15/1961 | China Peoples Republic |
South Vietnam | |
Intelligence | |
12/5/1961 | Volta River Project |
12/19/1961 | International Trade |
Intermediate Range Nuclear | |
Forces | |
NATO | |
1/18/1962 | Military Assistance |
2/27/1962 | USSR |
Space Policy | |
Nuclear Testing | |
3/28/1962 | Arms Control |
Nuclear Testing | |
4/18/1962 | Nuclear Testing |
6/26/1962 | United Nations General Assembly |
7/9/1962 | USSR |
Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles | |
7/10/1962 | USSR |
Space Policy | |
Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles | |
Intelligence | |
7/17/1962 | Economics |
9/6/1962 | Nuclear Testing |
10/20/1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis |
10/21/1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis |
10/22/1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis |
1/22/1963 | National Security Problems |
3/13/1963 | Latin America Europe |
4/2/1963 | Europe Cuba |
4/10/1963 | Laos |
4/20/1963 | Laos |
4/22/1963 | Laos |
5/9/1963 | India |
7/9/1963 | Harriman Mission |
7/31/1963 | China (Peoples Republic of China) |
9/12/1963 | Nuclear Weapons |
10/1/1963 | USSR |
Wheat | |
Eastern Europe | |
10/2/1963 | Vietnam |
- The topics listed were those designated by the NSC itself and may not reflect the full breadth of any particular discussion during a meeting. ↩