McGeorge Bundy (#41)

Abstract
Papers 1928-1996
Author, professor, government official. Research Assistant to Henry L. Stimson (1946-1948), Lecturer and Professor of Government, Harvard (1949-1953), Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard (1953-1960), Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs (1960-1966), President, Ford Foundation (1966-1980), Professor, New York University (1980-1990), Scholar-in-Residence, Carnegie Corporation (1990-1996). Personal and professional papers consisting of letters, memos, research notes and drafts, writings, publications, photographs, and ephemera. Includes information regarding social and professional organizations and 20 ^th -century personalities, academic figures and government officials. Topics include World War II, Harvard University, the John F. Kennedy Library, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War, civil rights, United States foreign policy, and atomic weapons development and control.

Access
Open in part.

Usage Restrictions
According to the deed of gift signed July 2004, copyright of these materials has been assigned to Mary L. Bundy and her heirs for their lifetimes. Documents in this collection that were prepared by officials of the United States as part of their official duties are in the public domain. Users of these materials are advised to determine the copyright status of any document from which they wish to publish.

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Provenance
Received from McGeorge Bundy of New York, NY, in May 1979 (Acc. 1979-019); and in November 1993 (Acc. 1997-023). Received from Mary L. Bundy of New York, NY in November 2003 (Acc. 2004-020); and in December 2003 (Acc. 2004-027).

Extent
About 250,000 items (200 cu. ft, 170 linear feet).
About 56,000 items open (24 cu. ft, 21 linear feet).

Classified Items Withdrawn
Selected folders may contain withdrawal sheets where documents containing national security classified information were removed from this collection.

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Selected folders may contain withdrawal sheets where documents, in accordance with the donor's deed of gift, were removed from the collection. These include documents which may be used to injure or harass any living person.

All withdrawn documents have been placed under seal and upon request the Kennedy Library will review any material which has been closed for a period of not less than 2 years for the purpose of opening items which no longer require restrictions. Researchers should consult the reference staff to obtain the appropriate form(s).

Items Separated
Items separated include oversize material (OVZ-41), oversize printed material (PM-41), museum objects (M-41), audiovisual material (AV-41), special volumes (SV-41), and index boxes (IDX-41).

Date Opened
February 2006.

Finding Aid Prepared by
Jaimie M. Quaglino, Rachel Gallagher, Emma Winter, Jessica Sims, Heather Soyka, Jennifer Beaton, and Erica Boudreau.

Related Collections
Papers of McGeorge Bundy, the Ford Foundation Archives, New York, NY
Papers of McGeorge Bundy, Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library, Austin, TX
Felix Frankfurter Papers, Harvard Law School Library, Cambridge, MA
National Security Files, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
National Security File, Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library, Austin, TX
Oral History of McGeorge Bundy, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
Oral History of McGeorge Bundy, Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library, Austin, TX
  

The Personal Papers of McGeorge Bundy (1919-1996)

Biographical Note
McGeorge "Mac" Bundy was born on March 30, 1919 to attorney Harvey Hollister Bundy and Katharine Lawrence [Putnam] Bundy in Boston, Massachusetts. Bundy was educated at Dexter School where he was a classmate of John F. Kennedy, Groton School, and Yale University. Mentored by his father's contemporaries - Secretary of State and Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson, and Justice Felix A. Frankfurter, Bundy was tapped into the Skull and Bones Society during his senior year at Yale. After graduating in 1939 with a B.A. in mathematics, Bundy became a Junior Fellow at Harvard University before entering the United States Navy. Trained as an intelligence officer, Bundy was discharged with the rank of Captain in 1946. During his post-service employment, Bundy worked as a research assistant for Henry L. Stimson, assisting him in the writing, editing, and publishing of his book of memoirs, On Active Service in Peace and War. Bundy also worked as a political analyst for the Council on Foreign Relations (1948-1949) and assistant to Allen W. Dulles.

In May 1949, Bundy began working as a Visiting Lecturer of Government at Harvard University. He taught courses on U.S. Government and international politics, and was promoted to Associate Professor of Government in May 1951. In addition to lecturing at Harvard, Bundy maintained his personal work on various scholarly and political projects. He gave public lectures, participated in several committees and organizations, and wrote essays and reviews for publication, including The Pattern of Responsibility (1951). In 1953, Bundy was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard College, a position he held for nearly a decade.

On December 31, 1960, President-Elect John F. Kennedy appointed Bundy to be the Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Bundy's assignment granted him status as an informal cabinet member for the Kennedy administration, a key advisor to the President and an insider to the inner workings of the National Security Council. Bundy worked alongside the President and assisted him with decision and policy-making during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis. After Kennedy's assassination, Bundy continued to serve under the Johnson administration as an adviser to President Lyndon Johnson, where he was involved in strategy and planning during the Vietnam War. Bundy was also involved in the development and planning of the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum and Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

Bundy left politics in 1966 to become the president of the Ford Foundation. Despite his official change of institutions, Bundy maintained a close relationship with President Johnson, serving as a Special Consultant to the President for several years after his departure. As Foundation President, Bundy pursued interests in population control, civil rights, foreign policy, arms control and the Vietnam conflict.

Bundy left the Ford Foundation to become a professor of History at New York University in 1980. Throughout his years at NYU Bundy pursued his interest in nuclear disarmament and atomic control, participating in conferences and forums as well contributing to published literature. Bundy researched and wrote his novel on the history of atomic research and energy in America, On Danger and Survival .

After leaving New York University in 1990, Bundy served as chair of the Committee on Reducing Nuclear Conflict (1990-1993) at the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and remained active as a member of the advisory board and scholar-in-residence there until his death, from a heart attack, at age 77 in 1996.
  

Collection Overview
This collection of McGeorge Bundy papers contains personal and professional papers relating to his work as a student, a professor and dean at Harvard University, a Special Assistant to President Kennedy on Foreign Affairs, President of the Ford Foundation, Professor of History at New York University, and scholar at the Carnegie Corporation. It also documents Bundy's early activities, his professional involvement in a variety of clubs, groups, and associations, as well as his personal research. The collection is arranged into seven series: Series 1. Early Working Files; Series 2. Stimson, Henry L., On Active Service in Peace and War ; Series 3. Harvard; Series 4. White House Subject Files; Series 5. Ford Foundation; Series 6. New York University; and Series 7. Carnegie Corporation.

The first three series document Bundy's early activities, his professional involvement in a variety of clubs, groups, and associations, as well as his work as a student, and a professor and dean at Harvard University. Early Working Files contain letters, writings, and subject files relating to Yale, the Skull and Bones Society and Harvard University Society of Fellows, McGeorge Bundy's 1941 campaign for Boston City Council, his naval career, and postgraduate employment. On Active Service in Peace and War documents McGeorge Bundy's collaboration in writing the memoir of family friend and government official Henry L. Stimson. Harvard files contain papers McGeorge Bundy maintained during his tenure as lecturer, assistant professor, professor, and dean at Harvard.

The White House Subject Files contain personal correspondence, memoranda, photographs, printed materials, and textual as well as audiovisual material relating to McGeorge Bundy's service under the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Correspondence between President Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, White House officials, and Bundy illustrate his role as assistant to Kennedy, his work during the transition between the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and his participation in the development of the John F. Kennedy Library, the John F. Kennedy Library Oral History Program, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

The Ford Foundation files document McGeorge Bundy's responsibilities as Foundation President as well as his external professional and personal activities, affiliations, and independent research. Files contain administrative letters that highlight the interests, investments, and activities of the Foundation, as well as personal correspondence with Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis and Robert F. Kennedy, and correspondence with President Lyndon Johnson regarding the Vietnam War and Bundy's role as special consultant to the President. Other files document Bundy's interest in the Vietnam War and American foreign relations.

The New York University series contains office files, speeches, personal files, subject files, writings, and printed materials McGeorge Bundy used during his tenure as a professor and academic at New York University. Office files contain incoming and outgoing correspondence, writings, and subject files limited to the years Bundy taught at New York University. Speeches consist of transcripts of talks and public appearances spanning from Bundy's time in the White House, through his years at the Ford Foundation, and well into his NYU professorship. Personal files contain background research, notes, drafts, and other materials relating to Danger and Survival . Subject files contain research and reference materials for a variety of purposes, writings, topics of personal interest, and material for future reading. This series is closed pending review.

Carnegie Corporation papers contain subject files, writings, and correspondence relating to Bundy's time as a scholar-in-residence up until his death in 1996. A large number of files relate to Bundy's unfinished memoir and his writings about the Vietnam War. This series is closed pending review.
  

List of Series

Collection Description

Series 1. Early Working Files, 1928-1949.
About 6,200 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical by subject.

This series documents McGeorge Bundy's early educational, professional, and extracurricular activities. Files consist of incoming letters with some outgoing carbons, and subject files containing correspondence, memos, writings, printed materials, notes and political ephemera. Major topics include the Skull and Bones Club, academia, philosophy, politics, World War II, and New England life. There are also files related to McGeorge Bundy's early professional activities, including his campaign for Boston City Council in 1941, his appointment to Harvard University's Society of Fellows, his service in the United States Navy, his work for the Office of Facts and Figures, Council on Foreign Relations, campaign work for Thomas Dewey and his work as research assistant to Allen W. Dulles.

Please note that this series does not include materials related to Bundy's professional collaboration with Henry L. Stimson, which also occurred during this time period. Those materials have been placed in their own series. Please consult Series 2. Henry L. Stimson, 1946-1948.
  

Series 2. Stimson, Henry L. On Active Service in Peace and War, 1946-1948.
About 7,600 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical by subject, thereunder chronological.

This series contains subject files, drafts, notes, and research material created as part of McGeorge Bundy's co-authoring of Henry L. Stimson's memoir, On Active Service in Peace and War . The bulk of the series consists of final and preliminary drafts and are organized in reverse order of creation. Subject files containing correspondence with publishers trace the manuscript from its initial development to its publication and public reception. The files also include book reviews, and clippings. Research and background files compose only a small portion of the series. Researchers should consult Series 1. for information about Bundy's collaboration with Henry L. Stimson for Foreign Affairs. Series 3.1. contains additional personal correspondence between Bundy and Stimson (see folder, "[1949-1951 S]" ).
  

Series 3. Harvard, 1949-1961.
About 14,500 items.

The Harvard series contains files related to Bundy's work as a lecturer, professor, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. In addition to his teaching and administrative roles, Bundy participated in several committees, organizations, and public lectures, and pursued his own research interests and writing projects. The series is composed of five subseries: Correspondence, 1949-1953; Personal Files, 1953-1961; Writings; Subject Files; and Course Files.
  

  

	3.2. Personal Files, 1953-1961. About 5,700 items. Arrangement: chronological by year, thereunder alphabetical by correspondent or subject. This series contains personal correspondence and subject files maintained by Bundy and his secretary during his tenure as Dean of Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Contents include recommendations, requests for appointments, notes of acceptance or regret to invitations, and scheduling assignments and agendas, as well as notes of congratulations regarding Bundy's appointment as Dean and his appointment to Kennedy's administration. Recurring subject files such as "invitations received," "articles," "speeches," "Yale," and "Groton" pertain to Bundy's involvement in extracurricular and other social activities concurrent with his position as Dean.
Box 16	1953-1954. Bundy, M. Personal
		A-C (3 folders) D-H (2 folders) I-R S-Z Acheson, Dean Articles, Speeches Invitations Received Miscellaneous Yale
	1954-1955. Bundy, M. Personal
		A-B
Box 17		C-F G-J K-O P-R S-Z Articles Congratulations
			September 1953 (2 folders) August 1953 (2 folders) March 1955-October 1953
		Gen. Ed. A Government Courses Groton School Standing Committee
Box 18		Invitations Received Miscellaneous Speeches Yale
	1955-1956. Bundy, M. Personal
		A-B C-F G-J K-R S-Z Articles Courses The Friday Evening Club Groton School Standing Committee Invitations Received Miscellaneous National Advisory Board (American Foundation for Political Education) Speeches Yale
	1956-1957. Bundy, M. Personal
		A-B
Box 19		C-F G-J K-R S-Z Articles Bilderberg Group Courses (2 folders) Deanery Groton School (2 folders) Invitations Received Miscellaneous Shady Hill School Board Speeches Yale
	1957-1958. Bundy, M. Personal
		A-B C-F (2 folders) G-J
Box 20		K-R S-Z Articles Courses Groton School (2 folders) Invitations Received Miscellaneous National Advisory Board (American Foundation for Political Education) Speeches Yale
	1958-1959. Bundy, M. Personal
		A - B C - F (2 folders) G - J K - R S-Z Articles
Box 21		Courses (3 folders) Groton School 1958-1959 (3 folders) Miscellaneous Shady Hill School Board 1958-1959 Speeches Yale
	1959-1960. Bundy, M. Personal
		A-B C-F G-J K-R (3 folders) S-Z Articles Courses
Box 22		Groton School (3 folders) Miscellaneous Shady Hill School Speeches (2 folders) Yale
	1960-1961. Bundy, M. Personal
		A-B C-F G-J K-R (2 folders) S-Z "Antigua" Arms Control Seminar (3 folders) Articles (2 folders)
Box 23		Cabot Corporation Century Association CHEAR Courses Groton School (2 folders) Miscellaneous "Omnibus" (2 folders) Personal letters, 1955-1961 Pictures Skull and Bones correspondence Speeches Yale
	1961. Bundy, M. Personal
		Congratulations
			A-C D-H J-L M-R S-W Miscellaneous

  

	3.3. Writings, 1949-1959. About 1,700 items. Arrangement: alphabetical. This series contains notes and drafts of articles, essays, reviews, and speeches written by Bundy during his time as lecturer, professor, and dean at Harvard. The series includes a complete publisher's typescript and some partial chapter notes for The Pattern of Responsibility , Bundy's edited collection published in 1951 intended to objectively present and defend the public record of Secretary of State Dean Acheson. The series also includes clippings and reviews of William F. Buckley's God and Man at Yale and notes and letters related to Bundy's response, "The Attack on Yale," The Atlantic Monthly .
Box 24	Almond Book Review, 1950 American Political Science Review , "Four Books on Loyalty and Liberty," July 1951 Appeasement [Book reviews] C.G. Dawes Review Extra Copies of Dean Bundy's Articles, Speeches, etc. (2 folders) "Foreign Affairs, Armed Forces," 1951 Foreign Affairs , October 1952 [ God and Man at Yale , William F. Buckley, Jr.]
		[Bundy articles, 1951: November - December] [Clippings & reviews] [Notes for Bundy article, 1951] [Responses to Bundy's articles] (2 folders)
	[ Harper's magazine article draft] [Jessup defense] Political Science Talk, December 1949 Public Statements, Fall 1952 Relief of Macarthur "Scholarship and Public Policy" [Speech transcript and notes]
Box 25	Statement on Security, Harvard Alumni Bulletin, 9 April 1955 (2 folders) The Pattern of Responsibility
		[Drafts, notes] Chapters 1-11, Index (10 folders) [Review: The Reporter, February 1952]
	[The Strategy of Truth - notes and drafts] "An Atmosphere to Breathe: Woodrow Wilson and the life of the American University College," Education in the Nation's Service series no. 2, January 1959 [no. 1 also included] (2 folders) Unitarian Convocation, May 1950

  

	3.4. Subject Files, 1949-1960. About 2,000 items. Arrangement: alphabetical by subject. This series consists of clippings, essays, letters, and biographical notes Bundy collected during his tenure at Harvard. Subjects include international government, foreign policy, American higher education, McCarthyism, and academic freedom. Files also include materials related to publications and organizations with which Bundy was associated, including his research on civil-military relations for the Social Science Research Council.
Box 26	Administrative Documents, 1949-1952] [Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, Articles and Clippings [Audiovisual Materials] Blackmer Report Reactions [Blank Stationery] Civil-Military Bibliography, (2 folders) Civil-Military Relations Civil-Military- SSRC (4 folders) Confluence Diplomacy, 1956 Congressional Committees and Academic Freedom 1953 (3 folders) [Department of State Publications, 1952, 1960] [Eisenhower Clippings] Erickson, E.H. "The Roots of Virtue" [Essay] Europe, 1956 Europe, the US, and the Colonies ["Generation of Greatness" by Edwin H. Land: MIT Lecture, 22 May 1957] Germany, 1956 Germans and French
Box 27	[H.H. Bundy Biographical Notes] (3 folders) [Harvard, Communism, and Government Security 1953, 1955] (Letters) [Harvard Degree], 1951 Middle East, 1958 Miscellaneous Publications, 1951 Mutual Security Program Oppenheimer Committee- Personal Administration ["Our Mutual Ends", Yale Alumni Dinner Address, 19 October 1951] "Remembered Words," Bundy, Harvey; March 1957 [Russian Vocabulary Lists] [Security and Loyalty Boards] (2 folders) SSRC- Social Science Research Council (6 folders) Suez and Middle East, 1956 The Reporter, 18 September 1958 [World Government Movement] World War II, 1956

  

	3.5. Course files, 1949-1960. About 3,700 items. Arrangement: by course number. This series contains outlines, research notes, reading lists, exams, correspondence, and a small amount of administrative material relating to the Government courses Bundy taught during his appointments as lecturer, professor, and Dean at Harvard. The files are arranged by course number, thereunder sequentially by Bundy's own Roman numerical system of organizing his lectures or alphabetically by course title.
Box 28	Government 1A
		Gov 1A 1A Term Papers CLOSED
	Government 135
		IV, Obstacles to Clearcut Organization - The Theory & Present Fact X, XI, XII, Public Opinion XIII, XV, Pressure Groups XVI, XIX, Big Government XXIV, XXX, Party Theory, 1950 Exams, 1950 Foreign Policy & Parties [Notes]
	Government 180
		Administration, 1951 Exams, 1951 General, 1951 Miscellaneous Lecture Notes, 1953 Notes, Spring 1953 Reading Lists, Spring 1953 Undergrad Administration, 1953
	Government 185
		I, II, III, 1955 II, US: 1914 III, US Goes to War: 1914-1917, 1952 IV, War and Policy: 1918, 1952 V, League, 1952 VI, VII, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, 1952 X, Win the War, Strategy vs. Policy, Overlord XI, War Diplomacy XV, The Disillusionment of Yalta, 1951 XVII, ERP, North Atlantic Treaty, MAP, 1951 XVIII, Summary of History XIX, U.S. vs. U.S.S.R. XX, Acheson on Foreign Policy
Box 29		XXI, U.S. & U.N. 1 XXII, U.S. & U.N. 2, World Government XXIII, Security 1 (Atomic Energy) XXIV, Security 2 XXVI, U.S. & Western Europe XXVII, U.S. & Germany XXVIII, Latin America XXIX, Far East 1 Administration
			1952 1959-1960
		Comments and Criticisms [Drafts] Exams, 1950 [Exams and Term Paper Assignments, 1955 - 1960] Exemptions from Term Papers, 1959 Far East Graduate Students
			1952 1956
		Keeps, 1951 Last Lectures
			1950 1955-1956
		Middle East, 1952 Middle East and Point 4, 1952 [Notes] Outlines and Book Orders Preliminary Discussions, 1955 Reading Lists, 1949- 1959 (2 folders) Unfinished Notes, 1958 Wild: Notes, Exams, and Readings, 1949 WWI and League, Miscellaneous Notes General
	Dean Bundy's Freshman Seminar (3 folders)
Box 30	Dean Bundy's Freshman Seminar Materials CLOSED [Dean Bundy's Freshman Seminar: Student Materials] Generals, 1953 Generals and Specials Generals and Special Exams- History, Government, Economics Material Before 1945 (filed 1958) Miscellaneous Lecture Notes Reading Lists- Spring 1951

  

Series 4. White House Subject Files, 1961-1966.
About 3,500 items.
Arrangement: alphabetical by subject.

White House Subject files contain personal correspondence, subject files, and notes McGeorge Bundy created and kept during his service for the Kennedy Administration. Included in the files are McGeorge Bundy's "Daily memoranda for the record," a diary-like collection of observations on President Kennedy and White House activity from December 1962 to July 1963. In these memoranda, Bundy discusses topics such as: the nuclear test ban treaty, US-Soviet relations, Khrushchev, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Laos, Charles de Gaulle, speechwriting (including John F. Kennedy's June 1963 "Ich bin ein Berliner" address), meetings, press conferences, and day-to-day White House activity. Files also contain correspondence between Bundy and President Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and President Johnson. Correspondence between President Kennedy and Bundy consists of memos written to Bundy regarding White House activities and issues, mostly from 1961, as well as President Kennedy's last memoranda sent to McGeorge Bundy on November 19, 1963. Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy and Robert Kennedy correspondence with Bundy deals with President Kennedy's funeral as well as post-assassination arrangements and events in the White House. Correspondence with President Lyndon Johnson is minimal in this series and pertains to the announcement of McGeorge Bundy's resignation from the White House in 1965. For more detailed personal correspondence between President Johnson and Bundy, see Series 5.2. Ford Foundation: Subject Files. Researchers should consult the National Security Files of John F. Kennedy for McGeorge Bundy's chronological files and memos generated as part of his role as national security adviser. Researchers should consult holdings at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library for coverage of Bundy's official role in the Johnson Administration.
  

Box 31	Accounting Sheets and Appraisal Lists, Re: Securities, 1962-1940 (2 folders) CLOSED [Audiovisual material]
		[Photographs]
			[Johnson Administration] [Kennedy Administration] [Undated]
		[Recorded Media: Records and Tapes]
	[Brandeis University events and speeches, 1963] [Christmas: Correspondence, 1963, 1964] [Clippings]
		[Bundy]
			[Johnson-Era Clippings] [Kennedy-Era Clippings]
	[Condolence mail, re: Harvey H. Bundy, October 1963] (2 folders) [Cuban Missile Crisis articles and clippings] Background briefing at the White House with George Reedy and McGeorge Bundy, 8 Feb1965 European Trip, September 1962 (3 folders) European Trip, September 1962. Mrs. Bundy
Box 31A	[ Foreign Affairs articles by Bundy] (2 folders) "Four Strands of Reality" [Bundy Oration, Harvard University, 1965] German Trip, 1962 [Honorary Degrees] [Inaugural Committee Invitation, 25 January 1961] [Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy correspondence]
		1962-1963 1964 undated
	[JFK memos, 1961: February to August and 19 November 1963 John F. Kennedy Library
		1965
		1964
			December - June May-April March February January
		1963
			December (2 folders)
		1961
			[10 November 1961]
	John F. Kennedy Library Oral History
		1964
			August - April March February - January
Box 32	"JFK's McGeorge Bundy: Cool Head for the Cold War." Newsweek [magazine cover], 4 March 1963 [Kennedy assassination publications] Kennedy School at Harvard
		1965 1964
			December November October - September June April - January
		Undated
	[Letters to Lothrop family,] 1960 [Lyndon B. Johnson correspondence, December 1965] [Mary Bundy clippings] [Mary Bundy] Foxcroft School conference, April 1964
	[McGeorge Bundy finances maintained by Harvey H. Bundy, 1963-1946] (10 folders) CLOSED [McGeorge Bundy finances maintained by Harvey H. Bundy, Items separated (non-financial)]
		1963-1960 1956-1947
	[McGeorge Bundy daily memoranda for the record, July 1963 - Dec. 1962]
		1963: July - May 1963: April - February [Tab A #1, 1963: February - January] [Tab A #2, January 1963]
Box 33			[Tab B, January 1963 - December 1962]
	Memorandum for the White House Staff, 31 July 1965 Mr. Bundy - Personal Schedules, etc...1963: May - July (2 folders) [Resignation and transition]
		[Clippings]
			[American Press Coverage] [German Press Coverage, 1965] (2 folders)
		[Correspondence, 1965] (3 folders)
	[RFK correspondence, December 1965 – December 1962] [Training of Scientists: articles] ["What is 'Realism' doing to American History?" Archibald MacLeish and McGeorge Bundy, Saturday Review , 3 July 1965] [White House style guide] (2 folders) [Writings by McGeorge Bundy, 1962-1965]

  

Series 5. Ford Foundation, 1966-1979.
About 24,000 items.

This series documents McGeorge Bundy's responsibilities as Foundation President as well as his external professional and personal activities, affiliations, and independent research. Materials are divided into two subseries, Day files and Subject Files. Please note that materials in this series serve as personal files Bundy kept from his time as President. Information documenting Bundy's administrative role within the Ford Foundation can be found in the Office of the President Office Files, Ford Foundation Archives, New York City, New York.
  

	Series 5.1. Ford Foundation Day Files. About 17,000 items. Arrangement: chronological, thereunder alphabetical by surname. This subseriescontains outgoing correspondence and memoranda primarily relating to the allocation of grants. Letters include replies to requests for project funding as well as form letters to senators and congressman, and document academic, social, and community development projects worldwide. Other materials include acceptance and regrets to invitations, letters of thanks and appreciation, commentary on books and dissertations, and administrative issues. The files also include letters pertaining to Bundy's involvement in activities outside his professional role including dealings with the founding of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (originally East West Center), membership in the Century Association, and his position as chairman for Groton's School Capital Program. Additional letters express opinions on affirmative action, public television, reproduction, and population control. Note that interoffice memoranda are filed under the letter "B" (for Bundy) until 1976; thereafter they are filed under "M" (for memoranda).
Box 34	1967
		A-F [missing] G-H I-K L-Mc N-Q R S T-V W-Z
	1968
		A B C D-F G-H
Box 35		I-L M-Mc N-Q R-S T-Z
	1969
		A-B C-D E-G H-J K-L
Box 36		M-N O-R S T-V W-Z
	1970
		A-B C-E F-H I-L M-N O-R S
Box 37		T-V W-Z
	1971
		A-B C-D E-G H-J K-L M-N O-R S-T U-Z
	1972
		A B C-D
Box 38		E-G H-J K-L M-O P-R S T-Z
	1973
		A B (2 folders) C D-F G H-J K-L
Box 39		M-N O-R S-T U-Z
	1974
		A B (4 folders) C D-E F-G H I-L
Box 40		M-N O-R S-U V-Z
	1975
		A B (3 folders) C-F G-H I-L M N-P
Box 41		Q-S T-Z
	1976
		A-B C D-E F-G H-J K-L M (2 folders) N-R S
Box 42		T-Z
	1977
		A B C-D E-G H-J K-L M (3 folders) N-R S-U V-Z
	1978
		A-B
Box 43		C-E F-G H-K L-M N-Q R-S T-V W-Z
	1979
		A-C D-F G-I J-M N-R S-T U-Z

  

	Series 5.2. Subject Files. About 6,700 items. Arrangement: alphabetical. Subject files consist of a small collection of personal correspondence between Bundy, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis and Robert F. Kennedy, as well as a larger run of letters to and from President Lyndon Johnson regarding the Vietnam War and Bundy's role as special consultant to the President. The series also contains articles, newspaper clippings, publications, published research, and photographs. Most articles are published by The Washington Post, New York Times and The Brookings Institution and document the Ford Foundation's ongoing interest in foreign policy, arms control, and the Vietnam conflict. The folders entitled "Policy Proposals, 1971" and "Sit Reps, 1970-1971" contain the bulk of these articles and clippings as well as copies of Congressional Records documenting Nixon's role in Vietnam. Files also include administrative, lecture and research notes pertaining to the Ford Foundation and foreign affairs in Vietnam and the Middle East. There is also material documenting Bundy's interest in affirmative action and the Supreme Court Case of the University of California vs. Alan Bakke, including research materials, drafts, and final copies of McGeorge Bundy's article, "The Issue before the Court: Who Gets Ahead in America," which appeared in the November 1977 issue of Atlantic Monthly .
Box 44	[Acheson article: "Memories of Joe McCarthy," Harper's Magazine, October 1969] Aiken, George [Audiovisual Material] [Bundy: Ford Foundation Clippings] C.M. (45) First Conclusions Minute 4 Confidential Annex CLOSED [Committee on the Future of Private and Independent Higher Education in New York State] [Committee on the Present Danger] [Conferences, 1979] [Council on Foreign Relations] Ford Foundation Board Meeting Photos, 1972-1973 [Ford, Henry: Correspondence] Foreign Policy and 1975 in General Foreign Policy Clippings, 1976 [Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Correspondence, 1969-1971] Kissinger, Henry A. Lease and Housing Documents, 1973-1976 CLOSED [Lyndon B. Johnson correspondence]
		[1966-1968] [1969-1972]
	Middle East Research Materials, clippings and articles (4 folders) [Miscellaneous publications and research material] Nixon negotiations ["Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents," 2 issues
Box 45	Mr. Bundy's Notes
		1970s (2 folders) 1969 1967 1966-1965 (2 folders)
	Oral History Project Interview, 1972, 1974 CLOSED ["The Plain Fact Is." A Special Report] Policy Perspectives, 1976 Policy Proposals, 1971 (3 folders) Portraits, photos and visit to the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA), 1970 President's Task Force on Government Organization
		Letters and Memoranda, 1966-1967 (2 folders)
Box 46		"The Organization and Management of Great Society Programs," 15 June 1967 "Two Final Reports," 15 September 1967
	["Research Universities and the National Interest", December 1977] [Robert F. Kennedy Correspondence, October 1966 - November 1967] Sit Reps, 1970-1971 (2 folders) ["The Strength of Government": Reviews and Writings] Term Papers, 1975-1976 Transcripts: CBS News "Face the Nation" with Secretary of State Rogers, 6 February 1972 [Transition Correspondence, 1979] Ulysses S. Grant Foundation Annual Report, 1969 University of California vs. Alan Bakke
		Bakke case notes Bakke case Syllabus "A Crisis for Racial Fairness" "The Issue Before the Court: Who Gets Ahead in America?" Correspondence
			1978 1977
				December November (1 of 2 folders)
Box 47				November (2 of 2 folders) October September
		Drafts (1 of 2 folders) Drafts (2 of 2 folders) [Published copies, The Atlantic November 1977] [Proceedings]
	Vietnam, articles and news clippings, [1965-1975] Visit to India Visit to National Defense University, 1977 War Powers, 1971-1973 White House visits, 1967 Writings
		"Action for Equal Opportunity" [Pamphlet] "After the Deluge, the Covenant," Saturday Review World 24 August 1974
Box 48		American Public Opinion and Foreign Policy 1975 Daedalus , 1977 "The Economic Effects of the Vietnamese War in East and South East Asia," The Economist Intelligence Unit QER Special No. 3, November 1968 Groton School Quarterly August 1974 [Prize Day Address] Writings about McGeorge Bundy Writings by others

  

Series 6. New York University, 1979-1990.

Series is closed pending review.


Series 7. Carnegie Corporation, 1990-1996.

Series is closed pending review.