Crisis Management Sessions

Intense strategy discussions among officials in formal environments, emphasizing national security and advisory meetings in a serious tone.

President Barack Obama meets with senior advisors in the Oval Office to discuss a new plan for the situation in Syria, Friday night, August 30, 2013.

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden meet with National Security Staff in the Situation Room of the White House, June 20, 2011.

President Barack Obama meets with senior advisors in the Oval Office to discuss a new plan for the situation in Syria, Friday night, August 30, 2013.

President Barack Obama talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on the phone in the Oval Office, before the two leaders issued a joint statement about their continued cooperation on the new START Treaty, Dec. 4, 2009.

President Barack Obama listens to a point being made in a meeting with senior advisors in the Oval Office, June 9, 2009.

President Barack Obama meets with his national security advisors concerning the situation in Iraq, in the Situation Room of the White House, Sunday, July 27, 2014.

President Barack Obama meets with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., for a conference call on health care in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Jan. 5, 2010.

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden meet with members of the national security team in the Situation Room of the White House, July 29, 2010, to discuss Afghanistan and Pakistan.

President Barack Obama meets with advisors during the Presidential Economic daily briefing in the Oval Office, June 26, 2009.

President Barack Obama at a senior advisors meeting in the Oval Office at the White House May 11, 2009. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza. This official White House photograph is being made available for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated or used in materials, advertisements, products, or promotions that in any way suggest approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House.

President Barack Obama meets with advisors in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Oct. 22, 2013. Seated from left: Todd Park, Assistant to the President and Chief Technology Officer; Steven VanRoekel, Administrator, E-Government and Information Technology; Jeffrey Zients, advisor for HealthCare.gov; and David Simas, Deputy Senior Advisor for Communications and Strategy.

President Barack Obama talks Nancy-Ann DeParle, Director of the White House Office for Health Reform, and Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett (center) at a staff meeting in the Oval Office May 12, 2009. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza. This official White House photograph is being made available for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated or used in materials, advertisements, products, or promotions that in any way suggest approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House.

Vice President Kamala Harris participates in a principals committee meeting on Monday, April 12, 2021, in the White House Situation Room.

President Barack Obama convenes a National Security Council meeting in the Situation Room of the White House to discuss the situation in Ukraine, March 3, 2014.

President Joe Biden meets with staff in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, July 2, 2021, to prepare for remarks he will give celebrating the 2020 Baseball World Series Champions, the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Dec. 1, 2010 "Another late night in the Oval Office as aides listen on speaker phone while the President speaks to President Lee of South Korea about finalizing a trade deal between the two countries."

President Barack Obama participates in a college affordability roundtable with college presidents in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Dec. 5, 2011.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, joined by Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg via Zoom, meet with bipartisan Senators to discuss infrastructure Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, in the Oval Office of the White House.

President Barack Obama works on his address to the nation with Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communication, aboard Air Force One before landing in Afghanistan, May 1, 2012.

President Barack Obama meets with his national security team on Afghanistan and Pakistan in the Situation Room of the White House, June 23, 2010. Seated at the table are, from left, General David Petraeus, head of US Central Command, Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, Vice President Joe Biden, the President, National Security Advisor Gen. James L. Jones, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Deputy National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, and John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism.

President Barack Obama meets with Cabinet members and senior administration officials to determine next steps in the ongoing effort to stop the BP oil spill, contain its spread, and help affected communities, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, May 14, 2010. Seated, from left, are Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral Pete Neffenger, NOAA Administrator Dr. Jane Lubchenco, Council of Environmental Quality Chair Nancy H. Sutley, Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change Heather Zichal, Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Cecilia Munoz, Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, and Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John Brennan.

Phil Schiliro, Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, reviews a document in the outer Oval Office of the White House on July 13, 2008.

President Barack Obama talks on a conference call with U.S. negotiators in Geneva, and Deputy National Security Advisors Tony Blinken and Ben Rhodes in the Oval Office, to discuss ongoing talks with Iran, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013.

With his auto task force and the Grand Foyer of the White House as a background, President Barack Obama makes his announcement about the General Motors bankruptcy and bail out.

Office of the Secretary - SECRETARY DONALD EVANS WHITE HOUSE PHOTOS

March 26, 2011 More often than not, the President is in the office on most Saturdays to convene a national security or economic meeting. Here, on a Saturday in March, the President listens during a conference call on Libya in the Situation Room of the White House.

President Barack Obama signs bills aboard Air Force One during the flight to Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 5, 2012. Assisting the President is Staff Secretary Doug Kramer.

Oct. 16, 2014 "The President talks on the phone to Texas Gov. Rick Perry to make sure Texas had the necessary resources if more health-care workers became ill with the Ebola virus. Because there were several other people in the Oval Office, I tried to incorporate them into the photograph."

President Barack Obama prepares to deliver remarks at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit Session One on �Investing in Africa�s Future,� at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on August 6, 2014.

Office of the Administrator - Department of State Air Monitoring - Administrator Gina McCarthy and Secretary of State John Kerry , Environmental Protection Agency

Greece, Athens on 2023-02-21. US Secretary of State, Head of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Antony J. Blinken, sometimes known as Tony Blinken, visiting the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the U.S.-Greece Strategic Dialogue and meeting with his Greek counterpart Minister Nikos Dendias. Photograph by Martin Bertrand. Grece, Athenes le 2023-02-21. Le Secretaire d'Etat des Etats-Unis, le chef département charge des Affaires etrangeres, Antony J. Blinken, dit parfois Tony Blinken, en visite au Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres Grec pour le U.S.-Greece Strategic Dialogue et une rencontre son homologue grec le Ministre Nikos Dendias. Photographie de Martin Bertrand.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, second from left, speaks during a meeting of the National Space Council in the East Room of the White House, Monday, June 18, 2018, in Washington. Chaired by the Vice President, the council's role is to advise the President regarding national space policy and strategy, and review the nation's long-range goals for space activities.

Vice President Kamala Harris receives a foreign policy briefing Monday, March 29, 2021, in the White House Situation Room.

President Barack Obama delivers his remarks at the first ever White House Maker Faire, which brings together students, entrepreneurs, and everyday citizens who are using new tools and techniques to launch new businesses, learn vital skills in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), and fuel the renaissance in American manufacturing, at the White House, Wednesday, June 18, 2014 in Washington. The President announced new steps the Administration and its partners are taking to support the ability of more Americans, young and old, to have to access to these tools and techniques and brings their ideas to life.

President Barack Obama calls a Member of Congress to discuss health care reform in the Oval Office, March 19, 2010.

President Barack Obama drops by National Security Advisor Gen. James Jones' meeting with former national security advisors, in the Situation Room of the White House, March 24, 2010. Seated at the table, from left, are Brent Scowcroft, Robert Bud McFarlane, Colin Powell, Dennis Ross, senior director for the central region, Sandy Berger, Frank Carlucci, and Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Dec. 29, 2012 In the Oval Office, the President meets with senior advisors to discuss the ongoing fiscal cliff negotiations.

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the opening session of the Forum on Modernizing Government, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington. As part of his commitment to change how business is done in Washington and instill a new sense of responsibility for taxpayer dollars, the President welcomed more than 50 of the countrys top CEOs, deputy secretaries, including NASA's Deputy Administrator Lori Garver and department chief information officers to the forum.

Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Urban League , Environmental Protection Agency

President Barack Obama talks with members of Congress on Air Force One after speaking at the AMA conference in Chicago.

Preseidet Obama visits FEMA headquarters.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

President Barack Obama reads a document during a break between phone calls in the Oval Office, Oct. 13, 2009.

President Barack Obama makes a phone call to Congressional leaders from the Outer Oval Office, June 23, 2010.

Mike Pence (born June 7, 1959) is an American politician; vice president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, he was the 50th governor of Indiana from 2013 to 2017. Pence was also a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2001 to 2013, representing the 2nd district of Indiana from 2001 to 2003 and the 6th district of Indiana from 2003 to 2013.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken virtually meets with staff of the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs from the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on January 25, 2022.

Jimmy Carter at his desk in the Oval Office circa 23 November 1977.

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President Barack Obama confers with, from left, Senior Advisor David Axelrod, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, National Economic Council Director Larry Summers, and Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs Mike Froman after bilateral meetings at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Nov. 17, 2009.

Preparing the White House for President Bush's welcoming of Chinese President Hu Jintao

President Barack Obama discusses an upcoming speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce with, from left, Director of Speechwriting Jon Favreau, Senior Advisor David Plouffe and Speechwriting Associate Director Jonathan Lovett in the Oval Office, Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken records a video message at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on February 16, 2021.

Office of the Secretary - SECRETARY DONALD EVANS TRIP TO RUSSIA

Oct. 16, 2015 "During the autumn months, as the sun dips lower in the sky, the light in the Oval Office changes throughout the day. Here, late one afternoon, the sun illuminated the President as he spoke on the telephone with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan."

Businesspeople waiting in a queue

President Barack Obama visits Chrysler's Jeep plant to celebrate the auto industry's recovery from the recession; Chrysler recently repaid the loans that the Obama administration extended to help it recover from bankruptcy, Toledo, Ohio, USA, America, North America

Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management, and Budget, R. Thomas Weimer, right, preparing for Department of Interior headquarters press briefing on the President's proposed budget for Interior for fiscal year 2007. Briefing featured discussion of energy, cooperative conservation, Indian trust reform, heritage preservation partnership, Water 2025 priorities

Office of the Secretary - BROADBAND EVENT WITH PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

President Donald Trump gives a speech to a joint session of Congress on February 28, 2017

Office of the Secretary - PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH AND SECRETARY DONALD EVANS AT SIGNING CEREMONY

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides to St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, for touring of the Estate Grange Alexander Hamilton Boyhood Home, the Juan F. Luis Hospital, and other natural and developed sites, as well as discussions with National Park Service personnel and Virgin Islands officials. Secretary Kempthorne joined Virgin Islands Governor John de Jongh, Jr., Virgin Islands Delegate to Congress Donna Christian Christiansen, and other leaders at a press conference and agreement signing event concerning grant awards for the benefit of the people and natural resources of the Virgin Islands.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, flanked by Ambassador Kay Bailey Hutchinson, tours the offices of the U.S. Mission to NATO, including a wall of the photos of U.S. cabinet level officials including his photo, in Brussels, Belgium, on April 27, 2018. (

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine discusses the fiscal year 2021 budget proposal during a State of NASA address, Monday, Feb. 10, 2020, at Aerojet Rocketdynes facility at NASAs Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - National Press Club , Environmental Protection Agency

Economic Development Administration - DR. DAVID SAMPSON HEARING

Office of the Administrator - Agency Headquarters Renaming Ceremony - ceremony to mark the renaming of the Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters in honor of President Bill Clinton , Environmental Protection Agency

This is a composite of several images of the President and his national security team during a series of meetings in the Situation Room of the White House discussing the mission against Osama bin Laden on Sunday, May 1. We put this together so in addition to the previous, now iconic image of this day, people might have a better sense of what it's like in presidential meetings of historic significance.

Astronaut Nicole Mann Downlink with Members of Congress. NASA astronaut Nicole Mann, Expedition 68 Flight Engineer, is seen from onboard the International Space Station (ISS) during a briefing with members of the House of Representatives, the Indian Affairs Committee, and the Senate Native American Affairs Committee, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington. Mann answered questions from members of the committees during a live downlink from the International Space Station.

Announcement, at the Sewall-Belmont House on Capitol Hill, of the introduction of bipartisan Congressional legislation for permanent authorization of the Preserve America and Save America's Treasures programs, with Secretary Dirk Kempthorne joining First Lady Laura Bush, New York Senator Hillary Clinton, New Mexico Senator Pete Domenici, North Carolina Congressman Brad Miller, Ohio Congressman Miichael Turner, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Chairman John Nau III, and National Trust for Historic Preservation President Richard Moe among the featured speakers

Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall, left, announces funding for historically Black colleges and universities to create a university affiliated research center consortium during a press briefing at the Pentagon, Arlington, Va., June 27, 2022. UARCs are research centers affiliated with a university to ensure that technology and engineering capabilities important to the military service are maintained.

2008 Democratic candidates for President speak at the DNC winter meeting

Signing ceremony, outside the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Maryland, for Executive Order protecting and conserving the striped bass and red drum fish populations, with President George W. Bush joined by Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, Maryland Congressman Wayne Gilchrest, Coastal Conservation Association Chairman Walter Fondren, American Sportfishing Association President Mike Nussman, Stripers Forever President Brad Burns, Shimano America Corporation President Dave Pfeiffer, and other dignitaries

Oct. 1, 2015 "I focused on the detail of the Resolute Desk as the President was talking with two aides in the Oval Office."

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken prepares with Acting Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of African Affairs Robert F. Godec before he meets virtually with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama, from the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on April 27, 2021.

Caucasian businessman pulling luggage in hotel hallway

Portrait of a senior businessman standing

Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh speaks during an on-camera press briefing at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., Dec. 7, 2022. (DoD photo by U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jack Sanders)

Office of the Secretary - PHOTOS WITH SECRETARY DONALD EVANS FROM JAPAN

Office of the Administrator (Stephen L. Johnson) - Unveiling Address , Environmental Protection Agency

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken delivers remarks at a virtual COVID-19 Ministerial from the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on November 10, 2021.

Advisor to the President Ivanka Trump, with National Security Advisor Robert O�Brien and Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun, delivers remarks at the Women's Global Development and Prosperity initiative virtual event on August 11, 2020, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - 14th National Marine Sanctuary President George W. Bush and Secretary Gutierrez

Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman participates in a virtual event with EEAS Secretary General Sannino hosted by the Brookings Institution from the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on December 3, 2021.

Lane Kirkland,head of AFL-CIO in his office at the AFL-CIO headquarters in September 1982.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo hosts a dinner for attendees of the Global Chiefs of Mission Conference, at the Department of State, on February 25, 2020.

Businessman sitting on a bench with a flask

Office of the Administrator - Agency Headquarters Renaming Ceremony - ceremony to mark the renaming of the Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters in honor of President Bill Clinton , Environmental Protection Agency

Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman attends a diplomacy tradecraft course, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2022.

Senators work together on immigration reform

Madrid, 03/04/2020. Plenary session of the Fiscal Council under the presidency of the State Attorney General, Dolores Delgado, who will take office as an ex officio member. Photo: Jaime García. ARCHDC.

Preserve America ceremony at the Caucus Room of the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill, where Secretary Dirk Kempthorne joined First Lady Laura Bush, Congressmen Michael Turner of Ohio and Brad Miller of North Carolina, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Chairman John Nau III, and other dignitaries for announcement of the first 43 Preserve America grants for 2007 and acknowledgement of 20 new Preserve America communities

President Barack Obama, upper right, stands near a carpet bearing the presidential seal before making remarks at a political fundraiser in Washington, D.C., Feb. 4, 2010.

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden walk arm and arm before speaking at the Chrysler Transmission Plant in Kokomo, Ind., Nov. 23, 2010.

U.S. Special Envoy for Global Food Security, Dr. Cary Fowler gives remarks during an event at the U.S Department of State where it was announced that Cynthia Rosenzweig, a senior research scientist and head of the Climate Impacts Group at NASAs Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City, was awarded the 2022 World Food Prize from the World Food Prize Foundation, Thursday, May 5, 2022, at the Harry S. Truman Building in Washington.

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