McGeorge Bundy | |
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.jpg) Bundy in 1967 | |
| 5th United States National Security Advisor | |
| In office January 20, 1961 – February 28, 1966 | |
| President | John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Deputy | Carl Kaysen Robert Komer Francis M. Bator |
| Preceded by | Gordon Gray |
| Succeeded by | Walt Rostow |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 30, 1919 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | September 16, 1996 (aged 77) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Resting place | Mount Auburn Cemetery |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse | Mary Lothrop |
| Children | 4 |
| Relatives | Harvey Hollister Bundy (father) William Bundy (brother) |
| Education | Yale University (AB) Harvard University |
McGeorge "Mac" Bundy (March 30, 1919 – September 16, 1996) was an American academic who served as the U.S. 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.