K. T. McFarland
| K. T. McFarland | |
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| Deputy National Security Advisor | |
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Assumed office January 20, 2017 |
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| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Avril Haines |
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Kathleen Troia July 22, 1951 Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Alan Roberts McFarland |
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Kathleen Troia "K.T." McFarland (born July 22, 1951) is the Deputy National Security Advisor to United States President Donald Trump. McFarland has served previously as a staff member on the U.S. National Security Council, a staff member at the Defense Department, and as a Fox News national security analyst and a contributor to its opinion page.
McFarland was born Kathleen Troia on July 22, 1951, in Madison, Wisconsin. She holds an undergraduate degree from George Washington University.
McFarland's government career began while she was a freshman at George Washington University, working part-time in the White House Situation Room typing the President's Daily Brief. She spent seven years 1970-76 in the West Wing of the White House, working her way up to become a member of Henry Kissinger's National Security Council staff. After the Ford Administration, McFarland studied at Oxford University (BA, MA) in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with concentrations on nuclear weapons, China, and the Soviet Union (study toward PhD, all but dissertation). She returned during the Reagan Administration as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee staff. Then, in President Ronald Reagan's administration, she served as the speechwriter for Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger from 1982 to 1985 and later as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and Pentagon spokesperson.
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