(TIME, September 30) -- His laserlike intellect radiated from behind his clear-rimmed glasses with an intensity as hot as his smile was cold. Had he been half as smart, he might have been a great man.

As he saw it, McGeorge Bundy’s responsibility to two Presidents was to “get to the bare bones of the problem as cleanly and clearly as you could and state the alternatives as sharply as possible.” In ...

Secretary: Mr. Bundy on line one. Bundy: I know you've got people for lunch but he stopped by here on his way out and I wondered if you had any feeling as to how we could or should follow up or ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. In The Best and the Brightest, David Halberstam described the elevation of McGeorge Bundy first to full professor, then to the deanship of Harvard in 1953. Bundy ...

Someone to talk to.” That is how McGeorge Bundy, national security adviser to Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, once summed up the ...

As national security adviser, McGeorge Bundy was the prototypical “best and brightest” Vietnam War policymaker in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Bundy was, according to foreign policy ...

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“We know this,” said McGeorge Bundy, onetime dean of the Harvard faculty, former White House braintruster and now president of the Ford Foundation, “that television is an A No. 1 problem and that ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: McGeorge Bundy was a Special Assistant for National Security in the White House with 35 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1961 Compiled Program.