Presidential Directives and
Executive Orders
The National Security Council (NSC) is the principal forum for Presidential consideration of foreign policy issues and national security matters. Persuant to policy review directives, the NSC gathers facts and views of appropriate Government agencies, conducts analyses, determines alternatives, and presents to the President policy choices for decision. The President's decisions are announced by decision directives.Related Resources
- The National Security Council: A Legal History of the President's Most Powerful Advisersby Cody M. Brown, Project on National Security Reform, December 2008
- 总统指令:Background and Overviewby Harold C. Relyea, Congressional Research Service
- Legal Effectiveness of A Presidential Directive, as Compared to an Executive Order, Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice, January 29, 2000
- National Security: The Use of Presidential Directives to Make and Implement U.S. Policy, General Accounting Office report NSIAD-92-72, January 1992
- History of the National Security Council 1947-1997State Department Historian - August 1997
- Presidential Directives on National Security from Truman to Clintonfrom the National Security Archive
- Foreign Relations of the United StatesVolumes Online
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