1. William Putnam Bundy was an American attorney and analyst with the CIA.
15 Facts About William Bundy
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William Bundy had key roles in planning the Vietnam War, serving as deputy to Paul Nitze at Defense under Kennedy and as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific affairs under Johnson.
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Bill was raised in a highly accomplished, highly intellectual family, with a brother McGeorge William Bundy who was two years younger.
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In 1960, William Bundy took a leave of absence from the CIA to serve as staff director for Eisenhower's Commission on National Goals.
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William Bundy continued to serve as an advisor on Vietnam following the election of President Richard M Nixon, but resigned from government in 1969.
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William Bundy moved to academia, teaching at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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William Bundy edited the influential journal, Foreign Affairs, of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1972 to 1984, serving as a member of the Council.
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William Bundy declined an offer by the Council's chairman, David Rockefeller, to be the Council's president.
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William Bundy's brother, McGeorge Bundy, attended Yale and was a member of Skull and Bones.
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Bill William Bundy was somewhat to the left of his brother politically, and was a spirited opponent of Joseph McCarthy.
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William Bundy was considered one of the administration's more dovish members on Vietnam, and was an advisor to three presidents.
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William Bundy was Honorary American Secretary General of the Bilderberg Meetings from 1975 to 1980.
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William Bundy's most noted work is A Tangled Web: The Making of Foreign Policy in the Nixon Presidency.
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William Bundy's papers are held by the Seeley G Mudd Library at Princeton University.
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Bill William Bundy married Mary Acheson, the daughter of Truman's Secretary of State Dean Acheson and his wife Alice.