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McGeorge Bundy (1965-12-26)
About this film
As the President's special assistant for national security affairs, McGeorge Bundy is a regular participant at the weekly foreign-policy luncheons that President Johnson has with Secretaries Rusk and McNamara. Appointed by the late President Kennedy to the post, Mr. Bundy and his staff were often referred to by the press as "the little State Department." The former Harvard dean and articulate White House official announced December 8, 1965, his resignation as special presidential assistant to assume the presidency of the Ford Foundation, effective February 28, 1966. As national security adviser and a coordinator on foreign affairs policies, Mr. Bundy has refined the National Security Council and has shaped it into an active and vital governmental body. Mr. Bundy, who supported the Cuban invasion, and who was on a task force sent to solve the Dominican Republic crisis, many times has been the one to answer for the administration the massed and vocal protests of academicians on the Vietnam conflict. In THE PRESIDENT'S MEN, Mr. Bundy appears in a rare and extensive interview that deals primarily with the National Security Council. In an era when a President has to make fast decisions,…
Directors & creators
National Educational Television and Radio Center
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, The President's Men
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