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. ↩