National Security Strategy

List of National Security Aides

(from the Second World War to the present)

PresidentSecretary of StateSecretary of WarSecretary of Navy
Roosevelt Cordell Hull
1933-44
Edward Stettinius
1944-45
George Dern
1933-36
Harry Woodring
1936-40
Henry L. Stimson
1940-45
Claude Swanson
1933-40
Charles Edison
1940
Frank Know
1940-44
James Forrestal
1944-45
Truman Edward Stettinius
1945
James Byrnes
1945-47
Henry L. Stimson
1945
Robert Patterson
1945-47
Kenneth C. Royall
1947
James Forrestal
1945-47
PresidentSecretary of StateSecretary of DefenseDirector of CIANational Security Advisor
Truman James Byrnes
1945-47
George Marshall
1947-49
Dean Acheson
1949-53
James Forrestal
1947-49
Louis Johnson
1949-50
George Marshall
1950-51
Robert Lovett
1951-53
Sydney Souers
1946
Hoyt Vandenberg
1946-47
Roscoe Hillenkoetter
1947-50
Walter Bedell Smith
1950-53
Eisenhower John Foster Dulles
1953-59
Christian Herter
1959-61
Charles Wilson
1953-57
Neil McElroy
1957-59
Thomas Gates
1959-61
Allen Dulles
1953-61
Robert Cutler
1953-55
Dillon Anderson
1955-56
Robert Cutler
1957-58
Gordon Gray
1958-61
Kennedy Dean Rusk
1961-63
Robert McNamara
1961-63
Allen Dulles
1961
John McCone
1961-63
McGeorge Bundy
1961-63
Johnson Dean Rusk
1963-69
Robert McNamara
1963-68
Clark Clifford
1968-69
John McCone
1963-65
William Raborn
1965-66
Richard Helms
1966-69
McGeorge Bundy
1963-66
Walt Rostow
1966-69
Nixon William Rogers
1969-73
Henry Kissinger
1973-74
Melvin Laird
1969-72
Elliot Richardson
1973
James Schlesinger
1973-74
Richard Helms
1969-73
James Schlesinger
1973
William Colby
1973-74
Henry Kissinger
1969-74
Ford Henry Kissinger
1974-77
James Schlesinger
1974-75
Donald Rumsfeld
1975-77
William Colby
1974-76
George H. Bush
1976-77
Henry Kissinger
1974-75
Brent Scowcroft
1975-77
Carter Cyrus Vance
1977-80
Edmund Muskie
1980-81
Harold Brown
1977-81
Stansfield Turner
1977-81
Zbigniew Brzezinski
1977-81
Reagan Alexander Haig
1981-82
George Shultz
1982-89
Caspar Weinberger
1981-87
Frank Carlucci
1987-89
William Casey
1981-87
William Webster
1987-89
Richard Allen
1981-82
William Clark
1982-83
Robert McFarlane
1983-85
John Poindexter
1985-86
Frank Carlucci
1986-87
Colin Powell
1987-89
George H. Bush James Baker
1989-93
Lawrence Eagleburger
1992-93
Dick Cheney
1989-93
William Webster
1989-91
Robert Gates
1991-93
Brent Scowcroft
1989-93
Clinton Warren Christopher
1993-97
Madeleine Albright
1997-01
Les Aspin
1993-94
William Perry
1994-97
William Cohen
1997-01
R. James Woolsey
1993-95
John Deutch
1995-96
George Tenet
1997-01
Anthony Lake
1993-97
Sandy Berger
1997-01
George W. Bush Colin Powell
2001-05
Condoleezza Rice
2005-09
Donald Rumsfeld
2001-06
Robert Gates
2006-09
George Tenet
2001-04
Porter Goss
2004-06
Michael Hayden
2006-09
Condoleezza Rice
2001-05
Stephen Hadley
2005-09
Obama Hillary Clinton
2009-13
John Kerry
2013-
Robert Gates
2009-11
Leon Panetta
2011-13
Chuck Hagel
2013-15
Ashton Carter
2015-
Leon Panetta
2009-11
David Petraeus
2011-12
John Brennan
2013-
James L. Jones
2009-10
Thomas Donilon
2010-13
Susan Rice
2013-