President Reagan With Advisors In The Situation Room

US President Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004) meets with his National Security Advisors in the Situation Room, Washington DC, October 23, 1983. Clockwise from bottom, National Security Advisor-designate Robert C McFarlane (1937 - 2022) back to camera), Counsellor to the President Edwin Meese, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General John William Vessey Jr, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger (1917 - 2006), Vice President (and future President) George HW Bush (1924 - 2018), Secretary of State George P Shultz (1920 - 2021), Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John McMahon, and White House Chief of Staff James A Baker III. They were discussing the then-ongoing truck bomb attack on the Multinational Force in Lebanon barracks. (Photo by Bill Fitz-Patrick - White House via CNP/Getty Images)