Roger Paul Morris (born January 15, 1938) is an American historian, foreign policy analyst, and journalist.
He served on the staff of the U.S. National Security Council under the presidencies of both Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon.
As an author he has won fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation,[1] the Society of American Historians and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
He first joined the National Security Council staff under the administration of Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson.
When Republican Richard Nixon won the presidency in 1968, he appointed Henry Kissinger as his National Security Advisor, and Kissinger asked Morris to remain on the NSC staff as a senior staff member.