Flashcards: United States National Security Advisors

Gordon Gray (May 30, 1909 – November 26, 1982) was an official in the government of the United States during the administrations of Harry Truman (1945–53) and Dwight Eisenhower (1953–61) associated with defense and national security.

Colin Luther Powell (/ˈkoʊlᵻn/; born April 5, 1937) is an American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army.

Samuel Richard "Sandy" Berger (October 28, 1945 – December 2, 2015) was an American political consultant who served as the United States National Security Advisor for President Bill Clinton from March 14, 1997, until January 20, 2001.

James Logan Jones, I (born December 19, 1943) is a retired United States Marine Corps general and the former United States National Security Advisor.

Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski (/ˈzbɪɡnjɛv bʒɛˈʒɪnski/ ZBIG-nyev bzheh-ZHIN-skee; Polish: Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński [ˈzbʲiɡɲɛf kaˈʑimʲɛʂ bʐɛˈʑiɲskʲi] ; born March 28, 1928) is a Polish-American political scientist and geostrategist, who served as a counselor to President Lyndon B.

William Anthony Kirsopp Lake, best known as Tony Lake, (born April 2, 1939) is the Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), author, academic, and former American diplomat, Foreign Service Officer, and political advisor.

Stephen John Hadley (born February 13, 1947) was the 21st U.

Robert Carl "Bud" McFarlane (born July 12, 1937) was National Security Advisor to President of the United States Ronald Reagan from 1983 through 1985.

Susan Elizabeth Rice (born November 17, 1964) is currently serving as the 24th United States National Security Advisor.

Condoleezza "Condi" Rice (/ˌkɒndəˈliːzə raɪs/; born November 14, 1954) is an American political scientist and diplomat.

Frank Charles Carlucci III (born October 18, 1930) served as the United States Secretary of Defense from 1987 to 1989 in the administration of President Ronald Reagan.

Janusz Kazimierz Zawodny (11 December 1921 – 8 April 2012) was a Polish-American historian, political scientist, and World War II soldier and resistance fighter of the Polish Underground State.

Dillon Anderson (July 14, 1906 – January 29, 1974) was a U.

William Patrick Clark Jr.

Gayle Smith is an American public administrator and the current administrator of the United States Agency for International Development.

John Marlan Poindexter (born August 12, 1936) is a retired United States naval officer and Department of Defense official.

(For the Canadian Liberal politician, see Robert Barry Cutler. For merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia, see Robert M. Cutler.) Robert Cutler (1895–1974) was a US government official.

Denis Richard McDonough (born December 2, 1969) is the 27th and current White House Chief of Staff, succeeding Jack Lew at the start of President Barack Obama's second term.

Robert Alan Pastor (April 10, 1947 – January 8, 2014) was a member of the National Security Council and a writer on foreign affairs.

Helmut Sonnenfeldt (September 13, 1926 – November 18, 2012), also known as Hal Sonnenfeldt, was an American foreign policy expert.

Richard Vincent Allen (born January 1, 1936) was the United States National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1982, having been Reagan's chief foreign policy advisor from 1977.

Jamie Frederic Metzl is an American writer, partner in the global investment company Cranemere LLC, and a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.