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President Ford conducts a National Security Council meeting to discuss the evacuation of Americans from Beirut following the assassinations of U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Francis E. Meloy, Jr. and Economic Counselor Robert O. Waring on June 16. June 17, 1976. Cabinet Room. [clockwise: President Ford, Deputy Defense Secretary William Clements, Counsellor John Marsh, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General George S. Brown, CIA Director George H.W. Bush, National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft, Chief of Staff Dick Cheney, Special Emissary to Lebanon L. Dean Brown, and Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger.
Image: B0254-11

Event: Meeting on the Lebanon Situation

Location: The Cabinet Room

Description: President Gerald R. Ford conducts a meeting to discuss the evacuation of Americans from Beirut following the assassinations of U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Francis E. Meloy, Jr. and Economic Counselor Robert O. Waring. [clockwise:  President Ford, Deputy Defense Secretary William Clements, Counsellor John Marsh, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General George S. Brown, CIA Director George H.W. Bush, National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, Chief of Staff Dick Cheney, Special Emissary to Lebanon L. Dean Brown, and Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger.   

Date: June 17, 1976

Credit: Courtesy Gerald R. Ford Library

Photographer: David Hume Kennerly

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