McGeorge Bundy

McGeorge Bundy
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	(1919-03-30)March 30, 1919 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	September 16, 1996(1996-09-16) (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.