Editing Ellsworth Bunker (section)

==Career==
[[File:Ellsworth Bunker with Indonesian President Soekarno.jpg|left|thumb|222x222px|Ellsworth Bunker with [[President of Indonesia|Indonesian President]] [[Sukarno]] at [[Merdeka Palace]] during a visit to [[Jakarta]], [[Indonesia]] March 1965.]]
[[File:Advisors meeting at Camp David - NARA - 192569.tif|left|thumb|222x222px|Ellsworth Bunker with [[President of the United States|President]] [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] and [[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]] [[Clark Clifford]] at [[Camp David|Camp David, Maryland]] April 1968.]]

Bunker first worked in his father's company, National Sugar Refining Company,<ref name=NolanCJ-p48/> eventually becoming the company's president, succeeding Horace Havemeyer Sr., in 1942. During World War II he served as chairman of the War Production Board's cane sugar advisory committee.<ref>{{cite news|title=WPB Official Testifies Sugar Imports Are Cut 50 Per Cent|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=March 24, 1942}}</ref> He retired as an active executive in 1951 and purchased a 600-acre dairy farm in [[Putney, Vermont]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Determined Diplomat|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=August 1, 1962}}</ref> He remained a member of the board of National Sugar until 1966.<ref>{{cite book|last=International Publications Service|title=International Who's Who, 1983-84: Volume 47|year=1983|publisher=Europa Publications|isbn=978-0-905118-86-4|pages=192}}</ref>

He then moved to government during the [[Harry S. Truman]] administration, when Truman appointed him [[United States Ambassador to Argentina|ambassador to Argentina]] in April 1951.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ambassador Bunker Sails|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=April 6, 1951}}</ref> Next he was [[United States Ambassador to Italy|ambassador to Italy]] in February 1952.<ref>{{cite news|title=Two Ambassadors Named By Truman|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=February 22, 1952}}</ref> From November 1953 until November 1956 he was president of the [[American Red Cross]].<ref>{{cite news|title=New President Is Named By American Red Cross|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=November 17, 1953}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Gruenther Named Head Of Red Cross|newspaper=[[The Register-Guard|Eugene Register-Guard]]|date=November 13, 1956}}</ref> In November 1956 he was appointed [[United States Ambassador to India|ambassador to India]] and [[United States Ambassador to Nepal|Nepal]] by [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]],<ref>{{cite web |title=U.S. Ambassadors to India - U.S. Embassy New Delhi, India |url=http://newdelhi.usembassy.gov/ambassadorlist.html |access-date=2007-05-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070528035111/http://newdelhi.usembassy.gov/ambassadorlist.html |archive-date=2007-05-28 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Nehru Backs Links to Commonwealth|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=December 8, 1956}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=A New Envoy to India|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=November 17, 1956}}</ref> and sworn in December 1956,<ref>{{cite news|title=A New Ambassador|newspaper=[[The Baltimore Sun]]|date=December 8, 1956}}</ref> where he played a crucial role in the covert alliance between the two powers against [[China]].{{Citation needed|date=November 2023}} He was replaced by [[John Kenneth Galbraith]] in 1961. During 1962 he acted as U.S. mediator in the [[New York Agreement]] over [[Western New Guinea]].

After a period back in [[Washington, D.C.]], he was made [[Ambassadors from the United States|U.S. ambassador]] to the [[Organization of American States]], 1964–1966. President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] appointed him U.S. ambassador to [[South Vietnam]], 1967–1973.<ref>{{cite web |last=Gillette |first=Michael L. |date=December 9, 1980 |title=Transcript, Ellsworth Bunker Oral History Interview I, 12/9/80 |publisher=LBJ Library |url=http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/Johnson/archives.hom/oralhistory.hom/BUNKER-E/bunker1.pdf |access-date=2007-05-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070714061839/http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/oralhistory.hom/BUNKER-E/bunker1.pdf |archive-date=July 14, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Once in [[Saigon]], he strongly supported the war efforts of Presidents Johnson and [[Richard Nixon]], and applauded US incursions into [[Laos]] and [[Cambodia]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Sorley |first=Lewis |year=1999 |title=A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam |url=https://archive.org/details/betterwarunexam00sorl/page/265 |url-access=registration |publisher=Harcourt |pages=[https://archive.org/details/betterwarunexam00sorl/page/265 265–266] |isbn=978-0-15-100266-5}}</ref> Following the conclusion of the [[Vietnam War]], Bunker headed the US team involved in the drawing up of the 1977 [[Torrijos-Carter Treaties]].

He was awarded the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] with Distinction twice—the first time by [[John F. Kennedy]] in 1963 (though the ceremony took place during [[Lyndon B Johnson]]'s term) and the second time by [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] in 1967. He is one of only two persons (the other being [[Colin Powell]]) who received the award twice, and the only person to receive it both times with distinction.