Salinger said the work President Kennedy, advisers, and members of his staff were doing on the address involved composition and wording, rather than last minute decisions on administration plans to meet the latest Berlin crisis precipitated by Russia's demands and proposals for the city.

President Eisenhower held an 8:30 a.m. meeting with top military and foreign-policy advisers, decided to break off diplomatic relations immediately.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.

Since 1979, President Obiang has been constrained only by a need to maintain a consensus among his advisers and political supporters, most of whom are drawn from the Nguema family in Mongomo, in the eastern part of Río Muni.

* 1972 – Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U. S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex.

* 1946 – Clark Clifford and George Elsey, military advisers to U. S. President Harry S. Truman, present him with a top-secret report on the Soviet Union that first recommends the containment policy.

The term White House is regularly used as a metonym for the Executive Office of the President of the United States and for the president's administration and advisers in general.

*** 1963 – After the overthrow of the Diem Regime in early November 1963, U. S. President John F. Kennedy increased the number of U. S. military advisers from 800 to more than 16, 000 to cope with rising guerrilla activity in Vietnam.

** Vietnam War: U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam ( after some debate, they agree on a 2-phase bombing plan ).

From 1933 to 1939, even as he greatly expanded the scope of the federal government's policies and powers in response to the Great Depression, Roosevelt muddled through: his " brains trust " of top advisers, although working directly for the President, often were appointed to vacant positions in agencies and departments, whence they drew their salaries since the White House lacked statutory or budgetary authority to create new staff positions.

The Catholic News Agency ( CNA ), in an online news story article posted by Alejandro Bermudez on Saturday, March 31, 2012, stated that, in response to a specific request made personally to Cuban President Raul Castro by Pope Benedict XVI, during his Apostolic Visitation of Leon, Mexico and the island in March of 2012, following the pattern of small advances in Church-Cuban relations, it was decreed by the Communist Party and Castro and his advisers that in 2012, Good Friday would be made a holiday, with a possibility that the move could perhaps be made permanent ( following the move of the late Pope John Paul II, who got Fidel Castro to declare Christmas Day a holiday-which is still the case-due to a personal request during his landmark trip in 1998 ).

Johnson had fended off proposals from McNamara and other advisers for a policy of bombing the North on four separate occasions since becoming President.

Bombing limitations were imposed by President Lyndon Johnson for geopolitical reasons, as he surmised that bombing Soviet and Chinese ships in port and killing Soviet advisers would bring the Soviets more directly into the war and destabilize the European Cold War.

As a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he and the other service chiefs function ( ed ) as the military advisers to the Secretary of Defense, the National Security Council, and the President.

The Sit Room allowed the President and his foreign affairs advisers to keep abreast of all the cable traffic from overseas posts.

Truman directed the Secretary of the Treasury, John W. Snyder to attend all meetings and Congress amended the National Security Act of 1947 to eliminate the three service secretaries from Council membership and add the Vice President ( who assumed second rank from the Secretary of State ) and the Joint Chiefs of Staff who became permanent advisers to the Council.

In fast-breaking crisis situations however, including the concurrent Suez crisis and Hungarian Revolution of 1956, the first and Second Taiwan Strait Crisis of 1955 and 1958, and the 1958 Lebanon crisis, these were typically managed through small meetings with the President in the White House, normally involving Dulles and other concerned advisers, and through telephone conversations between Eisenhower, Dulles, and other principal advisers.

The structure and functioning of the NSC depended in no small degree upon the interpersonal chemistry between the President and his principal advisers and department heads.

The innovations of a Presidential administration often do not survive its close, reflecting as they do the distinctive views and management style of the President and his immediate advisers.

Under Powell's direction, the President and his chief advisers weathered the Persian Gulf crisis in 1987 and the Reagan-Gorbachev relationship culminating in the Moscow Summit of June 1988 ( the smoothest ever seen by observers at the time ).

During President John F. Kennedy's term, while McNamara was Secretary of Defense, America's troops in Vietnam increased from 900 to 16, 000 advisers, who were not supposed to engage in combat but rather to train the Army of the Republic of Vietnam.

Gordon Goldstein's 2008 book Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam was reported to be, in late September, 2009, the " must-read-book " amongst President Barack Obama's war advisers, as they contemplated the alternative courses ahead in Afghanistan.

Pressure mounts as the President of the United States ( Henry Fonda ) and his advisers attempt to recall the group or shoot them down.

Nevertheless, by 1910 army commander Colonel Albino Jara felt strong enough to stage a coup against President Manuel Gondra.

Even before Scott's death was known, Amundsen had been offended by what he felt was a " sneering toast "' from RGS President Lord Curzon, at a meeting held supposedly to honour the polar victor.

President Wilson felt obliged to acknowledge the boy as theirs and sent the couple a note that simply said, " With congratulations to the baby.

" Andrew Jackson, while vetoing an Act for the renewal of the charter of the national bank, implied that the President could refuse to execute statutes that he felt were unconstitutional.

In spite of his failure to be re-elected, Taft achieved what he felt were his main goals as President: keeping permanent control of the party and keeping the courts sacrosanct until they were next threatened.

After the 1965 war, the cultural revolution, resentment, hostility towards the Ayub Khan's government began to arise when the population felt that " Kashmir cause " was betrayed by the President Ayub Khan.

For example, Anthony Scaramucci reportedly told President Barack Obama in 2010 that he felt like a piñata, " whacked with a stick " by " hostile politicians ".

The President, knowing how I felt, asked me to introduce legislation for all three.

" The song addressed how some liberals and progressives felt let down by Humphrey, who had become a much more mute figure as Vice President than he had been as a senator.

Many in the Congress felt the Secretary of Homeland Security should have been placed higher in the order – the rationale being that, as the officer responsible for disaster relief and security, the Secretary would be more capable of acting as President than, say, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

While he knew that Carter would not want him to be another Kissinger, Brzezinski also felt confident that the President did not want Secretary of State Vance to become another Dulles and would want his own input on key foreign policy decisions.

President Kennedy felt that US policy towards China was nonsensical and he planned to restore relations in his second term.

While he knew that Carter would not want him to be another Kissinger, Brzezenski also felt confident that the President did not want Secretary of State Vance to become another Dulles and would want his own input on key foreign policy decisions.

Breckinridge continued to try to persuade Davis that further resistance would only lead to greater loss of life, but he also felt honor bound to protect the President from harm.

: U. S. President George W. Bush felt " very strongly that the people to blame here are the terrorists.

The Mexican President felt threatened by William Walker's attempt to capture Baja California with 50 troops and annex Sonora.

President Buchannan, anticipating Mormon opposition to a newly appointed governor to replace Brigham Young, dispatched 2, 500 federal troops to Utah to seat the new governor, thus setting in motion a series of unfortunate misunderstandings when the Mormons felt threatened in light of their past history.

Passionate team Belmiro since childhood, the irascible Sérgio Bernardino only felt at home when he was hired by President Milton Teixeira to the team that would dispute the Brazilian 1993.

Many of the economic advisors accompanying the SCAP administration had experience with the New Deal program under American President Roosevelt, and were highly suspicious of monopolies and restrictive business practices, which they felt to be both inefficient, and to be a form of corporatism ( and thus inherently anti-democratic ).

The majority of exhibitors wanted a postponement, as stocks of plants were low, staff much depleted and fuel for greenhouses was obtainable only with special permits, but Lord Aberconway ( then RHS President ) and the RHS Council felt strongly that the show should resume as soon as possible.

Johnson's independence was further displayed in 1808 when he defied the orders of the Collector of the Port of Charleston, the United States Attorney General Caesar A. Rodney, and President Thomas Jefferson ( the very man who had nominated Johnson to his position ) because he felt that the executive branch's control of maritime trade was an overextension of its constitutional powers.

After witnessing a rendition of " You'll Never Walk Alone " at Anfield in 2007, the President of the Spanish Olympic Committee, Alejandro Blanco, said he felt inspired to seek lyrics to La Marcha Real ahead of Madrid's bid to host the 2016 Olympic Games.

Unable to achieve an honorable peace himself, Ludendorff had handed over power to the new civilian government, but he then blamed them for what he felt was a humiliating armistice that U. S. President Woodrow Wilson was proposing.

Even before he was President, then-Senator Obama became irritated with his campaign press pool when he felt they were too close to him and his daughters as they trick or treated on Halloween.