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16 september 1996 stephen james a. m. , andrew l. , william l. , 30 march 1919 february 28 , 1966 mount auburn cemetery cambridge , massachusetts yale university boston , massachusetts 250px foreign and defense policy advisor 6th united states national security advisor january 20 , 1961 mary b. lothrop mcgeorge bundy.jpg mcgeorge bundy mcgeorge office bundy during a 1967 meeting in the oval gordon gray boston , massachusetts john f. kennedy lyndon b. johnson walt rostow mcgeorge bundy

mcgeorge bundy

mcgeorge `` mac '' bundy -lrb- march 30 , 1919 -- september 16 , 1996 -rrb- was an american expert in foreign and defense policy , serving as united states national security advisor to presidents john f. kennedy and lyndon b. johnson from 1961 through 1966 .
he was president of the ford foundation from 1966 through 1979 .
despite his distinguished career as a foreign-policy intellectual , educator , and philanthropist , he is best remembered as one of the chief architects of the united states ' escalation of the vietnam war during the kennedy and johnson administrations .
after world war ii , during which bundy served as an intelligence officer , in 1949 he was selected for the council on foreign relations .
he worked with a study team on implementation of the marshall plan .
he was appointed as a professor of government at harvard university , and in 1953 as its youngest dean of the faculty of arts and sciences , working to develop harvard as a merit-based university .
in 1961 he joined kennedy 's administration .
after serving at the ford foundation , in 1979 he returned to academia as professor of history at new york university , and later as scholar in residence at the carnegie corporation .
