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What'sUpNewp
February 10, 2018
“While Gravely's professionalism and potential to command as an admiral in the U.S. Navy was acknowledged, the admirals who followed in his path have not been recognized in a single study,” said William Bundy, director of the Gravely Group. “Inspiring Innovation” will be introduced on Feb. 9 at the 2018Ãâà...
NBC2 News
January 8, 2018
Nevertheless, Auchincloss tells us that one can have ideals, as he does, and as his roommate Bill Bundy and his brother, McGeorge, had, to make the world better. (The Bundys were advisers to President Johnson, among those called the 'best and brightest', who got the US enmeshed in the Viet Nam War.)Ãâà...
POLITICO Magazine
August 6, 2017
Johnson and his aides suspected this treachery at the time, for the Americans were eavesdropping on their South Vietnamese allies—(“Hold on,” Anna ..... So did book-writing Johnson administration officials like Clark Clifford and William Bundy and University of Virginia scholar Ken Hughes, in a 2014 bookÃâà...
Vox
July 19, 2017
In that year, Nixon employed secret emissaries to urge South Vietnamese officials to stall, and thus wreck, President Lyndon Johnson's election eve effort to .... his book on Nixon's foreign policy, the Democratic national security expert William Bundy did some Monday morning quarterbacking and concludedÃâà...
Business Insider
March 19, 2017
George Bush George W. Bush, the last in a long line of Bonesman in his family, gives a speech as president. Photo by Susan Watts-Pool/Getty Images In 1832, Yale students — including future President William Howard Taft's father— founded one of America's most famous secret societies: Skull and Bones.
RealClearPolitics
August 9, 2015
She passed on secret messages from Nixon to South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, urging him to resist Johnson's last-minute peace plan and ... The late William Bundy, who served as assistant secretary of state in 1968 for Johnson, complained in page after page about Nixon's perfidy in hisÃâà...
Boston Review
August 9, 2014
So I came to believe after a decade in the anti-Vietnam War movement. And nothing I read in Kai Bird's new biography of the Bundy brothers, The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy-Brothers in Arms, changes my opinion. Weaving a rich history of government documents-some recentlyÃâà...
Foreign Policy
October 6, 2009
In the spring of 1995, McGeorge Bundy asked me to collaborate with him on a retrospective analysis of the American presidency and the Vietnam War during .... It was the so-called middle way envisioned by Bill Bundy, the assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs and McGeorge's brother,Ãâà...
Atlantic Online
February 2, 2001
Previously, at every critical turn in the war, McNamara had flown to Vietnam to bargain directly with Westmoreland and the other commanders regarding the .... Habib, who was deputy to William Bundy and a specialist on Vietnamese affairs, thought almost any alternative course would be preferable to sending more U.S.Ãâà...
