page_title: Stephen Hadley
section_title: National Security Advisor
hierarchical_section_title: Stephen Hadley / Career / National Security Advisor
caption_attribution_description: English: President George W. Bush talks with National Security Advisor, Steve Hadley, and Counselor to the President of the United States, Dan Bartlett, after a meeting with senior defense leaders at the Pentagon, May 10, 2007.
context_page_description: Stephen John Hadley is an American attorney and government employee who served as the 21st United States National Security Advisor from 2005 to 2009. He served under President George W. Bush during the second term of his administration. Hadley was Deputy National Security Advisor during Bush's first term. Before that Hadley served in a variety of capacities in the defense and national security fields. He has also worked as a lawyer and consultant in private practice.
context_section_description: On January 26, 2005, he replaced Condoleezza Rice as National Security Advisor, upon Rice's confirmation as Secretary of State. In that capacity he was the principal White House foreign policy advisor to President Bush, directed the National Security Council staff, and ran the interagency national security policy development and execution process.
  In 2007 Hadley led a public media campaign in an effort to convince the public that the proposed Iraq surge would work.
  Hadley was known for avoiding focused public attention. In a 2006 profile, the Washington Post described Hadley as "a modest man in an immodest job. In a town populated by people nursing grandiose views of their own importance and scheming for greater glory, Hadley still thinks of himself as a staff man. He sits at the pinnacle of power, but articulates no sweeping personal vision of the world and has made a point of staying in the shadows."
  In his book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, former President Jimmy Carter recounts that Hadley, in his capacity as national security adviser (Carter calls him by title rather than by name) personally denied Carter permission to visit Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in early 2005, in the wake of the administration's decision to isolate the regime, due its "differences with Syria concerning U.S. policy in Iraq".
caption: Hadley conferring with President Bush in 2007
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