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	   Samuel Berger - Assistant to the President
		for National Security Affairs   
	  Lieutenant General Donald L. Kerrick - Deputy Assistant
		to the President for National Security Affairs   
	  Mara Rudman - Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security
		Affairs   
	    
	 Establishment of the National Security Council 
	  The National Security Council was established by the National Security
		Act of 1947 (PL 235 - 61 Stat. 496; U.S.C. 402), amended by the National
		Security Act Amendments of 1949 (63 Stat. 579; 50 U.S.C. 401 et seq.). Later in
		1949, as part of the Reorganization Plan, the Council was placed in the
		Executive Office of the President.   
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