Biography

Lieut. Gen. H.R. McMaster, U.S. Army, retired has served as a member of the Zoom Board of Directors since May 2020. Since September 2018, he has served at Stanford University as the Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Susan and Bernard Liautaud Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute and as lecturer at the Graduate School of Business. He served as a commissioned officer in the United States Army for thirty-four years until his retirement in June 2018. From February 2017 to April 2018, McMaster was the 26th Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. General McMaster holds a B.S. from the United States Military Academy at West Point and a M.A. and Ph.D. in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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[20 February 2017] President Donald Trump names McMaster as his national security advisor.

Hoover Institution senior fellow.

Our leaders can't feel compelled to tell their bosses what they want to hear.

[on President Trump for not explicitly condemning the white supremacists involved at the rally in Charlottesville, Virginia]When he condemned bigotry and hatred on all sides, that includes white supremacists and Neo-Nazis, and I think it's clear. I know it's clear in his mind.

The world is not a "global community" but an arena where nations, nongovernmental actors and businesses engage and compete for advantage. We bring to this forum unmatched military, political, economic, cultural and moral strength. Rather than deny this elemental nature of international affairs, we embrace it.

So I think the plan is for director Cohn to consider other ways in which we can work with partners in the Paris Climate Accord. We want to be productive. We want to be helpful.

[on if President Trump had always been willing to consider changes on the climate pact]He left the door open to re-entering at some later time if there can be a better deal for the United States. If there's an agreement that benefits the American people, certainly