william p. bundy

  William Bundy

William Putnam "Bill" Bundy (September 24, 1917–October 6, 2000) was a foreign-affairs advisor to U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He had a key role in planning the Vietnam War and was brother to McGeorge Bundy. Born in 1917 to Harvey Hollister Bundy, a diplomat who helped implement the Marshall Plan, he was raised in a highly accomplished, highly intellectual family. After attending the Groton School and Yale University, he entered Harvard Law School but left to join the Army Signal Corps during World War II. During this time he worked at Bletchley Park in Britain as part of the top secret ULTRA operation to break Nazi codes. During the 1950s he worked as an analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency. During the Kennedy years he worked for the Secretary of the Navy and during much of the LBJ era was an Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific affairs. After resigning from the executive branch in 1969 he taught at MIT and then edited the journal Foreign Affairs for 12 years. He was married to Mary Acheson, daughter of former Secretary of State Dean Acheson.

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