William Bundy

William Bundy
Bundy in 1968
9th Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
In office
March 16, 1964 – May 4, 1969
PresidentLyndon B. Johnson
Preceded byRoger Hilsman
Succeeded byMarshall Green
Personal details
Born
William Putnam Bundy

(1917-09-24)September 24, 1917
Boston, Massachusetts
DiedOctober 6, 2000(2000-10-06) (aged 83)
Princeton, New Jersey
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseMary Acheson
EducationYale University
Harvard University
OccupationCIA analyst, attorney

William Putnam Bundy (September 24, 1917 – October 6, 2000) was an American attorney and analyst with the CIA. Bundy served as a foreign affairs advisor to both presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He had key roles in planning the Vietnam War, serving as deputy to Paul Nitze at Defense under Kennedy and as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific affairs under Johnson.

After leaving government service in 1969, Bundy served as a historian of foreign affairs, teaching at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and at Princeton University, from 1972 to his death. His book A Tangled Web: The Making of Foreign Policy in the Nixon Presidency (1998) is considered his most important work.