Stephen Hadley, Former Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs -- 12-1 PM, October 13, 2009, Bennett-Miller Room, Vanderbilt University Law School;
 http://www.usip.org/specialists/stephen-j-hadley

Stephen Hadley completed four years as the National Security Advisor on January 20, 2009. In that capacity he was the principal White House foreign policy advisor to then-President George W. Bush, directed the National Security Council staff, and ran the interagency national security policy development and execution process.  He will speak on the decision to go to war in Iraq and other key national security decisions as the administration committed itself to a military intervention in Iraq.  From January 20, 2001, to January 20, 2005, Mr. Hadley was the Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor, serving under then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. In addition to covering the full range of national security issues, he had special responsibilities in several specific areas including U.S. relations with Russia, the Israeli disengagement from Gaza, developing a strategic relationship with India, ballistic missile defense, and the NASA manned space program.