Office of Public Affairs

Press Office

Special Assistant to the President,
Deputy Press Secretary and Senior Director

Members of the Press Office for Foreign Affairs serve the President, National Security Advisor and White House Press Secretary on all press-related matters involving national security and foreign policy issues. The press secretaries also coordinate all contacts between the NSC staff and the press.

Responsibilities include coordinating press affairs with U.S. Government agencies responsible for foreign, defense and intelligence policy. The NSC press secretaries provide briefings the White House press corps on foreign policy matters. The press secretaries accompany the President on all foreign trips where they brief the President, the National Security Advisor and the Press Secretary on breaking foreign news stories and brief the press corps traveling with the President.

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