McGeorge Bundy

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McGeorge "Mac" Bundy was an American expert in foreign and defense policy, serving as United States National Security Advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 through 1966. He was president of the Ford Foundation from 1966 through 1979. Despite his career as a foreign-policy intellectual, educator, and philanthropist, he is best remembered as one of the chief architects of the United States' escalation of the Vietnam War during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations After World War II, during which Bundy served as an intelligence officer, in 1949 he was selected for the Council on Foreign Relations. He worked with a study team on implementation of the Marshall Plan. He was appointed a professor of government at Harvard University, and in 1953 as its youngest dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, working to develop Harvard as a merit-based university. In 1961 he joined Kennedy's administration. After serving at the Ford Foundation, in 1979 he returned to academia as professor of history at New York University, and later as scholar in residence at the Carnegie Corporation.

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The Strength of Government
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Reducing nuclear danger
Representative edition published 1993
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Danger and Survival
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Presidential promises and performance
Representative edition published 1980
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Memos of the special assistant for national security affairs
Representative edition published 1985
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The Americans and Europe: rhetoric and reality
Representative edition published 1969
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The McGeorge Bundy statement on Vietnam
Representative edition published 1968
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The fourth Cosmos Club award: McGeorge Bundy
Representative edition published 1967
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An atmosphere to breathe
Representative edition published 1959
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