6/27/2012 12:26:28 PM
Mount Auburn Cemetery
McGeorge Bundy, also known as “Mac”, was appointed United States National Security Advisor by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 and continued on with President Lyndon B. Johnson until February 1966. Bundy was a professor of government at Harvard University, and in 1953 was appointed Harvard’s dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Among Bundy’s prestigious honors was his 1954 election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and receiving the Presidential Medal Of Freedom in 1969. He made a major career change in 1966 taking on the position of president of the Ford Foundation from 1966 to 1979.
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McGeorge "Mac" Bundy (March 30, 1919 – September 16, 1996) was United States National Security Advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson from 1961 through 1966, and president of the Ford Foundation from 1966 through 1979. He is known primarily for his role in escalating the involvement of the United States in Vietnam during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.