WHO'S 'BUNDY' NOW?

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 27, 1998
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: December 12, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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DEC 12 1565,
"Bundy" - Now
?CPYRGHT
By .Douglas Kiker
of TAe kerald Tribune staff
Now that McGeorge Bundy
has resigned as the White
House adviser on foreign af-
fairs, will President Johnston
eventually fin dit necessary
to bring in some one of equal;
talent to replace him?
The President made it clear
last week that, although he
hasn't quite decided what his
i final answer to that will be
his basic Impulse is to say,
"I'd rather do it mystelf."
E After Mr. Bundy's resigns-
'tion was announced last
J Wednesday, White House
press secretary Bill Moyers,
obviously responding to ape-
cific Presidential instructions,
had this to say;
"I am sire that there will
be increasing contact between.
the President and members
.:of the Administration In-
,voived principally in foreign
affairs . , . he will meet with
business ' in the White House stayed, for two years, a pow
basement five years ago. erful, dignified figure, a man
us Ulu r drlanrlly onnnvh hilt AnMAUrhaf,'
repiy
erful:
QState -Dept. bureaucracy
prevents It from being an ef-
fective agent of nuclear-age
diplomacy: - i
(['The formulation and exe
cution of the foreign policies
of the U. S. are no longer
.the exclusive concern of the
State Department. Rather, it
is a meandering thing In
which the Defense Depart- r
ment, thc., CentraiIptelllKence
A c=, tH^e Atomto"-"T nergy
ommis`sion, , the Agriculture
Department and other Fed
eral shops all have roles- and
interests. These must be co-
ordinated and It can only be
done at the White House,
([rn an age of Jets and :
light)ng communications,
when this morning's distant,
rumble results in this after..
noon's United Nations debate,
remote from. the group of ?
young Texans who concur-
rently worshipped and feared,
their boss, a part of the White'
House staff, but never a mem-
ber of, the Irl' team..;.:A y~ri
rectly with the principals 3n quickly and the State Depart.
,the department , , . . ment moves at too measured
The. President, Mr. Moyers a pace.
"
three months, really, in which
,to decide what to do about
the position and any suc-
cessor." There is little doubt
that Mr. Johnson will take all
that time and probably more
to make up his mind. Even if
he does decide to fill the post,
there remains the problem of
,finding the right man.
There is, about all of this,'
!strong evidence that Mr.
Johnson believes that the
went on to say,
has almost ? CMost important of all, it.
Is essential that a President
have his own man, whose
loyalty Is to him alone, who
does not have the interests of
a huge department to con-
sider, who is always at hand,
McGeorge' Bundy served
President Kennedy, Since the
assassination; he has served
the President of the United
States, not Lyndon.Johnson
and this has made some dif-
ference.
,conduct. of foreign policy The two were not. close
'properly Is the business Of" when Mr. Johnson entered the
,the State Department; that White House, and at first Mr.
a President already has his Bundy thought of leaving,
foreign policy adviser at hand But he didn't, and there were.
In the person of his Secretary ; those who thought it was be
iof State, , and that John , cause Mr. Johnson had prom-:
F. Kennedy unnecessarily ised him an eventual golden
1tangled.the lines of authority reward..
,when he set Mr. Bundy up in ' At any event, rlr;'.$.>i>k1i-
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