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Author Daalder, Ivo H.

Title In the shadow of the Oval Office : profiles of the national security advisers and the presidents they served : from JFK to George W. Bush / Ivo H. Daalder and I.M. Destler.

Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  JK552 .D33 2009    DUE 05-10-24  ---
Edition 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Description 386 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-368) and index.
Contents "The president needs help" -- "You can't beat brains" -- "You don't tell anybody" -- "I would never be bored" -- "Serious mistakes were made" -- "Brent doesn't want anything" -- "You have to drive the process" -- "I'm a gut player" -- "Trust is the coin of the realm".
Summary The most solemn obligation of any president is to safeguard the nation's security--but the president cannot do this alone. He needs help. In the past half century, presidents have relied on their national security advisers to provide that help. Who are these people, the powerful officials who operate out of public view and accountable only to the presidents who put them there? Some remain obscure even to this day, but quite a number have names that resonate far beyond the foreign policy élite: McGeorge Bundy, Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice. Daalder and Destler provide the first inside look at how presidents from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush have used their national security advisers to manage America's engagements with the outside world.--From publisher description.
Subject United States. Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs -- History.
United States. Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.
History.
Presidents -- United States -- Staff.
Presidents.
United States.
United States -- Foreign relations.
International relations.
National security -- United States.
National security.
Added Author Destler, I. M.
ISBN 9781416553199
1416553193