After serving in U. S. Army intelligence during World War II, McGeorge Bundy worked as an assistant to former Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson. Though he considered himself a Republican, then Harvard Dean of Faculty, Mr. Bundy was disillusioned with 1960 Republican candidate Richard Nixon, and organized support for Kennedy among academics and scientists. Bundy was appointed Special Assistant to the President for National Security in 1961. He was considered one of the "best and brightest" of President Kennedy's circle of advisors and cabinet members. Following President Kennedy's assassination, Mr. Bundy stayed on as President Johnson's National Security Adviser, and was best known for his role as a supporter of the American military effort in Vietnam. He resigned in 1966 to become President of the Ford Foundation.
1919 Born, Boston, MA
1940 A.B., Yale University
1941 Junior fellow, Harvard University
1941-1946 Served, US Army
1946-1947 Assistant to Henry L. Stimson
1948-49 Political Analyst, Council on Foreign Relations
1949-51 Visiting Lecturer, Harvard University
1951-54 Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University
1953-61 Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
1954-61 Professor of Government, Harvard University
1961-66 Special Assistant to the President for National Security
1966- President, Ford Foundation
1996 Died
Author
On Active Service in Peace and War, 1948
The Strength of Government, 1968
Presidential Promises and Performance (with Edmund S. Muskie), 1980
Danger and Survival: Choices about the Bomb in the First Fifty Years, 1988
Reducing Nuclear Danger: The Road Away from the Brink (with William J. Crowe, Jr. and Sidney D. Drell), 1993
Editor
Pattern of Responsibility, 1952.
Contributor: US Interests and Global Natural Resources: Energy, Minerals, Food, (ed. Emery N. Castle and Kent A. Price), 1980
Source:
"McGeorge Bundy." Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed. 17 Vols. Gale Research, 1998.
Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI: The Gale Group. 2004.
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