Roger Morris (1870 - 1917)

Roger Morris served on the staff of the National Security Council under Presidents Johnson and Nixon. He resigned in protest over the invasion of Cambodia. An award-winning investigative journalist, historian, and a former diplomat, he is the author of several books including Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician (Henry Holt & Co., 1989). Morris is currently completing a history dealing with U.S. policy and covert intervention in Southwest Asia for publisher Alfred Knopf.