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NSC Meetings in the Kennedy Administration

by David Coleman

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

  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: JFK, 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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