Executive Committee
The Executive Committee , or ExComm for short, was convened on October 16, 1962 by US President John F. Kennedy to resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis. This informal, secret committee consisted of the National Security Council and other high-ranking political and military actors. After the Cuban Missile Crisis was settled, the ExComm was dissolved.
Members
- John F. Kennedy - President
- Lyndon B. Johnson - Vice President
- Dean Rusk - Secretary of State
- C. Douglas Dillon - Secretary of the Treasury
- Robert McNamara - Secretary of Defense
- Robert F. Kennedy - Attorney General
- McGeorge Bundy - National Security Advisor
- John McCone - Chief of the CIA
- Maxwell D. Taylor - Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- George Wildman Ball - Deputy Secretary of State
- Ted Sorensen - White House Legal Advisor
- Arthur C. Lundahl - Director of the National Aerial Image Evaluation
- Edwin Martin - State Department Assistant for Internal American Affairs
- Marshall S. Carter - Deputy Director of the CIA
- Sidney Graybeal - CIA
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson Junior - UN Ambassador
- Kenneth O'Donnell - Assistant to the President
- Dean Acheson - Former Secretary of State (1949-1953)