McGeorge Bundy Biography

Appointed military adviser to President Kennedy & later to President Johnson

Appointed military adviser to President Kennedy & later to President Johnson

If Vietnam falls it will be impossible to hold South East Asia

Reccomends a "hard hitting operation" to support President Diem

Reccomends sending 8,000 troops to Vietnam

Bundy joins the presidential review of the Trinidad plan as Kennedy demands a less overt American appearance.

Bundy meets CIA and military officials and then briefs Kennedy on the revised invasion planning.

Bundy informs Cabell that dawn air strikes are not to proceed until they can be launched from the beachhead.

Bundy confirms that no presidential diversion order has been issued, allowing the landing operation to proceed.

A U-2 spy photographs the secret site where Russian missiles will be located in Cuba

Bundy learned that photographic evidence confirmed Soviet offensive missile installations in Cuba.

Bundy informed Kennedy at 8:45 a.m. that a major international crisis had developed.

Bundy coordinated meetings and intelligence distribution as advisers compared military and political responses to the missile deployment.

Bundy helped organize the decision process that produced Kennedy's choice of a naval quarantine.

Bundy coordinated White House preparations for the President's address and the formal establishment of ExComm.

Bundy participated in the intense ExComm deliberations over the U-2 loss and Khrushchev's changing settlement terms.

Bundy helped coordinate immediate follow-up after the Soviet decision to dismantle and remove the offensive missiles.

National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy visits South Vietnam for the 1st time