McGeorge Bundy Quotes


I was brought up in a home where the Secretary of State was not the subject of partisan debate.


Context

During the McCarthy era, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, was viciously attacked for being "soft on Communism:"


Citations

McGeorge Bundy, 1919-1996, Presidential Assistant for National Security (Democrat), Quoted in Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest, Fawcett, 1969

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McGeorge Bundy
  • Born: March 30, 1919
  • Died: September 16, 1996
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McGeorge "Mac" Bundy was an American academic who served 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.