BUNDY OF THE WHITE

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CIA-RDP75-00001R000100280055-7
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November 11, 2016
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March 1, 1999
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March 10, 1962
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Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-00001 R000100280055-7 MOR! BUNDLE # DATE PAC;F,S Box Fo l cl e r 4* Fon *~ BEST COPY A VAILABLE Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-00001 R000100280055-7 Sanitized - Approved For Release CtA _'~b Fundy of theWi' Hi is Presidential aide, an ex-Repub.h, in the Kennedy Adtninistrafot:a FL, lid Milton NlaeKaye 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, fiumiliativa Mot!. of ft A. supported invaslj nt Cuba. Cambridge ;.t y2'+ t like Bundy seems to. iag up. and) when *1"6& 'tiid`think the job wok it was precisely becdgtae fie "0 ahead for the United S.t an-o-*. 0;i ? ' br cepted without, gpibirlA,, h., pt White House past. ' '. Bundy's job is'highly im{1,ut.ed of course, the President's viser on foreignf nay licit r'.~ .... .e r ?. a ..u center. Dispatches and c a warrant the Presidents at' ?n to Bundy's ofhct.: ;peas:, rondo concerning Wia,i relation -a daBp tprxear..i ,a inflow and tree. to it 43 tt th. judgment and a ittrtitt~rr t s peculiarities affil :bits of s sense Bundy. i ti t;`utstodittt dent's timc1 r t ' cuss rtt'rlty issttda, whici tied stay on i ntd+~ "a_ i Kennedy made swsepirsg e1', tcommittees, in which no onn authorhy, we aboflalied. -.\t, tiosu and following tltramatlh Bundy's hands-as d wtrp,s; specialists whose irsi a, x' r in daily touch agencies . oncerneu .ire. rity. Like Bundy, the) ttllt 8140 1, Approved>ior_iRel,easell:tCJ A- -UF75,}Q( 11,,1 n, ,. Mick!, ick}, I,, I l 1 C ,11,1 , , , ; c'shlaulvt} ., As hei.,i fluln,l rl.... to .II1t clijo) Ing. I porous anil ward by , (-, It seems n11t alms' ^i, \1~'rld t\,lr Il,k' equip'-i 7;, C, ru autos and bt that costs ei,1 ne,a In!'' has ',171?: Cti ~t:zlY,l,l re} , '5 -IIll'p tlul t 11', In tIi' I 00280055-7---, - ~