BUNDY OF THE WHITE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100280055-7
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 55
• Publication Date: March 10, 1962
• Content Type: OPEN

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Hi is Presidential aide, an ex-Repub.h,
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CPYRGHT
r he American electorate took the
news that McGeorge Bundy was
joining the Kennedy A.dministra-
. _ tion without an accelerated heart-"
beat. But in the acadttrnle community,
where Bundy occupied a 'position of dis-
+inction, there was a gennteel churning of
excitement. Why-and it was -a good
question-would Harvard's Dean of Arts
And Scient.'es abandon the security and.
serenity of Cambridge for the stormy
weather of national affairs?
lie was widely known as one of the
most successful campus administrators in
the country. He had been offered, and
had refused, the presidency of half a
dozen major colleges and universities. So
far as his future was concerned, it was
hardly a vocational handicap that his
great-uncle, A. Lawrence Lowell, had
served as Harvard's president for almost
quarter century..
Y'et, when President Kennedy offered
him a public post, Bundy accepted with
what some people thought was surprising
alacrity. Proper Bostonians perhaps
would not have looked askance if the ap-
pointment had had cabinet status. But to
a few there seemed to be a loss of dignity
in Harvard's No. 2 executive taking a job
as a staff officer at the White House.
This attitude was nothing new. Soon
after President Eisenhower recruited
Robert Cutler, president of the Old Col-
any Trust Company. for somewhat situ-
Harr duties, two ancient gentlemen wt e
reading their-newspapers in Boston's an.
cient Somerset Club. One, to the story
goes, raised his head and said, "I sett
Bobbie Cutler is in Washington making
quite a reputation." The other didn't even
look up. "Purely national," he said.
People who know Mac Bundy inti-
mately sere not surprised at his decision.
To them the pattern of his life from boy-
hood on-as an ttrsdezgl'ttdug. 4t, Yale,
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supported invaslj nt Cuba.
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Bundy seems to. iag up.
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it was precisely becdgtae fie "0
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of course, the President's
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warrant the Presidents at' ?n
to Bundy's ofhct.: ;peas:,
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