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NSC Meetings in the Nixon Administration

by David Coleman

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

Early in his presidency, Nixon used the NSC quite a lot, and they met often. But by the end of 1970 they were meeting much less frequently. By 1971 there were some long periods where the NSC did not meet at all. In 1972 it met only 3 times and in 1973 only twice.



Meeting Date Agenda Topics
1/21/1969 National Security Council System
1/25/1969 Vietnam
1/29/1969 Nonproliferation Treaty
2/1/1969 Middle East
2/4/1969 Middle East
2/10/1969 Joint Strategic Target Planning
2/12/1969 Strategic Policy Issues and Biafran Relief
2/14/1969 Biafra and Strategic Balance
2/19/1969 East/West Relations (National Security Study Memorandum 10)
3/5/1969 Fiscal Year 1970 Defense Budget
3/15/1969 Eighteen Nation Disarmament Committee
3/26/1969 Foreign Aid
3/28/1969 Vietnam
4/8/1969 NATO
4/9/1969 US Trade Policy
4/16/1969 North Korean Downing of US Aircraft
4/25/1969 Middle East
4/30/1969 Japan – Seabeds
5/7/1969 Far East Trade Mission
5/15/1969 President’s Vietnam Speech/Part 1
5/15/1969 President’s Vietnam Speech/Part 2
5/21/1969 Policy Toward Communist Countries (National Security Study Memorandum 35)
6/3/1969 Secretary Roger’s Trip/Part 1
6/3/1969 Secretary Roger’s Trip/Part 2
6/13/1969 US Strategic Posture
6/17/1969 Special Meeting Called by the President
6/18/1969 US Strategic Power and Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
6/25/1969 Alternative Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Options (National Security Study Memorandum 28)
7/7/1969 Vietnam Paris Negotiations (Sequoia)
7/9/1969 Latin America
7/15/1969 Israel
8/14/1969 Korea and China Briefings
9/10/1969 Review of General Purpose Forces (National Security Study Memorandum 3)
9/11/1969 Next Steps in the Middle East
9/12/1969 Vietnam
10/8/1969 Verification
10/15/1969 Latin America
11/10/1969 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (National Security Study Memorandum 62)
11/18/1969 Chemical/Biological Warfare
12/10/1969 Middle East
12/17/1969 Southern Africa
1/23/1970 Safeguard (Antiballistic Missiles)
1/28/1970 Europe
2/23/1970 Post DeGaulle France
2/27/1970 Laos
3/4/1970 Korea (National Security Study Memorandum 27)
3/24/1970 US Deferment and Exemption Policy (National Security Study Memorandum 78)
3/25/1970 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
4/8/1970 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
4/22/1970 Cambodia
4/27/1970 Economic Policy – Peterson Report
6/10/1970 Middle East
6/17/1970 Mediterranean
7/21/1970 Vietnam Cease-Fire
8/19/1970 Defense Planning 1971-1976
9/1/1970 Middle East
9/21/1970 Jordan
9/21/1970 Jordan
9/22/1970 Jordan
9/23/1970 Jordan and Cuba
10/13/1970 Cienfuegos/Cuba
USSR
10/14/1970 European Security
11/6/1970 Chile (National Security Study Memorandum 97)
11/19/1970 NATO/Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions (National Security Study Memorandums 84 and 92)
1/27/1971 Safeguard and Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
2/11/1971 Annual Review
2/26/1971 Laos
2/26/1971 Middle East
3/8/1971 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
3/25/1971 United Nations Representation and China
6/17/1971 Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions
6/29/1971 Middle East Review
6/30/1971 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
7/16/1971 Middle East/South Asia
8/13/1971 Defense Strategy and Fiscal Guidance
9/20/1971 Vietnam
11/10/1971 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
11/12/1971 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
12/1/1971 Conference on European Security and Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions (NATO Ministerial)
2/2/1972 Vietnam
3/17/1972 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
5/8/1972 Vietnam
3/8/1973 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks 2
4/12/1973 Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions
1/24/1974 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
3/21/1974 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
6/20/1974 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

  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: Nixon, 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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