Office of the Historian

Persons

  • Aaron, David L., Deputy Assistant to the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
  • Allen, Lew, General, USAF; Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force, from April 1978 to August 1978; Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force, from August 1978
  • Aspin, Les, Congressman (D-Wisconsin)
  • Bartholomew, Reginald H., “Reg,” Deputy Director, Policy Planning Staff, Department of State, until January 1977; Deputy Director, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, Department of State, from January until November 1977; member, National Security Council Staff for USSR/East Europe Affairs from November 1977 until April 1979; Director, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, Department of State, from July 1, 1979
  • Bialer, Seweryn, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
  • Blechman, Barry, Assistant Director, Weapons Evaluation and Control Bureau, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
  • Bowie, Robert, Director, National Foreign Assessment Center, Central Intelligence Agency
  • Brezhnev, Leonid, General Secretary, Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  • Brown, George S., General, USA; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff until 1978
  • Brown, Harold, Secretary of Defense
  • Brzezinski, Zbigniew, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
  • Bundy, McGeorge, President, Ford Foundation
  • Callaghan, James, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from April 5, 1977, until May 4, 1979
  • Carter, James Earl, Jr. “Jimmy,” President of the United States
  • Christopher, Warren M., Deputy Secretary of State from February 26, 1977
  • Claytor, W. Graham, Jr., Secretary of the Navy from February 14, 1977, until July 26, 1979; Acting Secretary of Transportation in 1979; Deputy Secretary of Defense from August 24, 1979, until January 16, 1981
  • Clift, A. Denis, Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs
  • Clough, Susan, Personal Secretary to President Carter
  • Cutler, Lloyd N., White House Counsel from 1979 until 1981
  • Cutter, W. Bowman, Executive Associate Director for Budget, Office of Management and Budget
  • Davis, Jeanne W., member, National Security Council Staff
  • Davis, Lynne E., Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Plans and NSC Affairs, Department of Defense
  • Dinneen, Gerald P., Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence
  • Dobrynin, Anatoli F., Soviet Ambassador to the United States
  • Dodson, Christine, Deputy Staff Secretary, National Security Council, from January until May 1977; thereafter Staff Secretary
  • Duncan, Charles W., Deputy Secretary of Defense from January 31, 1977, until July 26, 1979; Secretary of Energy from August 24, 1979
  • Eizenstat, Stuart E., Organizer, Issues Staff, Carter-Mondale campaign, from 1974 until 1976; Director of Policy Planning for the Transition, from November 1976 until January 1977; thereafter Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs and Policy and Executive Director of the Domestic Council
  • Ellis, Richard H., General, USAF; Commander in Chief, Strategic Air Command, from August 1, 1977
  • Ermarth, Fritz, member, National Security Council Staff from 1978
  • Ford, Gerald R., President of the United States from August 8, 1974, until January 20, 1977
  • Garwin, Richard, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
  • Gates, Robert “Bob,” Special Assistant to the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from April 1978 until December 1979
  • Gelb, Leslie, Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs
  • Giscard-d’Estaing, Valéry, President of France
  • Goldwater, Barry, Senator (R-Arizona)
  • Gompert, David, Deputy Director, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, Department of State
  • Hanson, Thor, Rear Admiral, USN; Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
  • Hill, James E., General, USAF; Vice Commander in Chief, North American Aerospace Defense Command, from December 6, 1977, until December 31, 1979
  • Huntington, Samuel P., member, National Security Council Staff for National Security Planning, from February 1977 until August 1978; thereafter Director, Harvard University Center for International Affairs
  • Inman, Bobby Ray, Admiral, USN; Director, National Security Agency
  • Jackson, Henry M. “Scoop,” Senator (D-Washington)
  • Jayne, Edward R. “Randy,” Associate Director for National Security and International Affairs, Office of Management and Budget
  • Jones, David C., General, USAF; Chief of Staff, United States Air Force, until June 20, 1978; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, from June 21, 1978
  • Jordan, Hamilton, Chair, Carter-Mondale campaign in 1976; Assistant to the President from 1977 until July 1979; White House Chief of Staff from July 1979 until June 1980
  • Keeny, Spurgeon M., Jr., Deputy Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
  • Komer, Robert, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from October 1979
  • Lake, W. Anthony K., Director, Policy Planning Staff, Department of State
  • Lance, Bert, Director, Office of Management and Budget, from January 1977 until March 1978.
  • Marshall, Andrew W., Director, Office of Net Assessment, Department of Defense
  • McGiffert, David E., Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, from April 4, 1977
  • McIntyre, James T., Jr., Director, Georgia Office of Planning and Budget until February 1977; Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget, from February until September 1977; acting Director from September 1977 until March 24, 1978; thereafter Director
  • Molander, Roger, member, National Security Council Staff for Defense Coordination
  • Mondale, Walter F. “Fritz,” Senator (DFL-Minnesota) until December 30, 1976; Vice President of the United States
  • Murphy, Daniel, Admiral, USN; Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
  • Murray, Russell II, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Program Analysis and Evaluation
  • Muskie, Edmund S., Senator (D-Maine) until May 1980; Secretary of State from May 8, 1980
  • Nitze, Paul, member, The Committee on the Present Danger; former Deputy Secretary of Defense
  • Nunn, Sam, Senator (D-Georgia)
  • Odom, William E. “Bill,” Lieutenant General, USA; Military Assistant to the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
  • O’Neill, Thomas P., Jr., “Tip,” Speaker of the House of Representatives
  • Perry, William J. “Bill,” Director of Defense Research and Engineering (renamed Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering on October 21, 1977) from April 11, 1977
  • Press, Frank, Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy
  • Price, Charles Melvin, member, U.S. House of Representatives (D-Illinois); Chairman, House Armed Services Committee
  • Resor, Stanley, U.S. Representative to the Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, until 1978; Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from August 14, 1978, until April 1, 1979
  • Rumsfeld, Donald, Secretary of Defense from October 1975 until January 20, 1977
  • Schlesinger, James, Secretary of Energy from August 5, 1977, until July 20, 1978
  • Schmidt, Helmut, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • Schultze, Charles L., Chairman, White House Office of Economic Advisers
  • Seignious, George, Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency from March 1979
  • Slocombe, Walter, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
  • Sloss, Leon, Study Director of Nuclear Targeting Study Phase I; Assistant Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency until 1978
  • Stebbins, Charles, member, National Security Council Staff for Defense Coordination from May 1977 until June 1980
  • Stennis, John C., Senator (D-Mississippi); Chairman, Senate Armed Services Committee
  • Stoertz, Howard, National Intelligence Officer for Strategic Policy, Central Intelligence Agency
  • Strauss, Robert S., Special Representative, White House Office of the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations from 1977 until 1979
  • Tarnoff, Peter, Special Assistant to the Secretary and Executive Secretary, Department of State, from April 4, 1977
  • Turner, Stansfield, Admiral, USN; Director of Central Intelligence from March 9, 1977
  • Utgoff, Victor, member, National Security Council Staff for Defense Coordination
  • Vance, Cyrus, Secretary of State until April 20, 1980
  • Warnke, Paul C., Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency from March 1977 until October 1978
  • Welch, Jasper, member, National Security Council Staff
  • Woolsey, R. James, Under Secretary of the Navy from March 1977 until December 1979