"Get your hands dirty," he advised the President, sensing a whole new front in the budget war.

Created in 2004, its mission is to coordinate, and advise the President on, intelligence.

The council, made up of civilian and military officials, advises the President on national security.

"I have to be effective in advising the President on an issue that hasn't even arisen yet."

Right now the admiral did not know what course of action to advise the President, but he would by the end of the day.

And he was advising the President on issues of national security.

Advise the President and the Congress on the implementation of policy.

This includes advising the President on matters of health, welfare, and income security programs.

You began your testimony by saying that the function of a national security adviser is to present options and to advise the President.

That pattern seems to work especially in the case of the men who have advised the President on national security affairs.