Forum to consider role of security advisers

BY B.J. ALMOND
Rice News Staff

Six former national security advisers are meeting in Washington,
D.C., today at a forum sponsored by the James A. Baker III
Institute for Public Policy and the Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars.

The forum is
being held to discuss the role of the national security
adviser (NSA) in the formulation, planning, conduct and
coordination of the nation’s foreign and national security
policies.

Baker Institute
Director Edward Djerejian is presenting opening remarks
for the forum, which will be moderated by CNN anchor Wolf
Blitzer. Former NSAs who are scheduled as panelists, along
with the presidents for whom they served, are Samuel Berger
(Clinton), Zbigniew Brzezinski (Carter), Frank Carlucci
(Reagan), Andrew Goodpaster (Eisenhower), Robert McFarlane
(Reagan) and Walt Rostow (Kennedy and Johnson).

Lee Hamilton,
director of the Wilson Center, will present closing remarks.