Editing McGeorge Bundy (section)

==Academic career==
From 1945 to 1947, Bundy worked with [[Henry L. Stimson|Henry Stimson]] as [[ghostwriter]] of his third-person autobiography, ''On Active Service in Peace and War'' (1947).<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1962/12/02/archives/when-bundy-says-the-president-wants-when-bundy-says.html?sq=mcgeorge%2520bundy%2520stimson&scp=3&st=cse "When Bundy Says, 'The President Wants--'" (paid archive)], ''The New York Times'', December 2, 1962. Partial quote: "After V-J Day, Bundy spent a year and a half working on the Stimson book, . ... " Retrieved July 7, 2009.</ref> Stimson suffered a massive heart attack (leading to a speech impediment) two months after completing his second appointment as [[United States Secretary of War]] in the fall of 1945, and Bundy's assistance was integral to the completion of the book.

In 1948, he worked for Republican presidential candidate [[Thomas E. Dewey]] as a speechwriter specializing in foreign policy issues.{{sfn|Langguth|2000|p=231.}} Bundy had expected Dewey to win the 1948 election, and to be rewarded with some sort of senior post in a Dewey administration.{{sfn|Langguth|2000|p=231}} After Dewey's defeat, Bundy became a political analyst at the [[Council on Foreign Relations]] in New York, where he studied [[Marshall Plan]] aid to Europe. Notable members of the study group were [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], then serving as president of [[Columbia University]]; future [[Director of Central Intelligence]] [[Allen Dulles]]; future [[CIA]] official [[Richard M. Bissell, Jr.]]; and diplomat [[George F. Kennan]]. The group's deliberations were sensitive and secret, dealing as they did with the classified fact that there was a covert side to the Marshall Plan, [[Operation Gladio|by which the CIA used certain funds to aid anti-communist groups]] in [[France]] and [[Italy]].<ref>Covert CIA side to the Marshall Plan – see {{cite book |first=Kai |last=Bird |title=The Color of Truth: McGeorge and William Bundy, Brothers in Arms: A Biography |location=New York |publisher=Simon and Schuster |year=1998 |page=[https://archive.org/details/coloroftruthmcge00bird_0/page/106 106] |isbn=0-684-80970-2 }}</ref>

In 1949, Bundy was appointed as a visiting lecturer in Harvard University's Department of Government. He taught the [[history of U.S. foreign policy]] and was popular among students; after two years, he was promoted to [[associate professor]] and recommended for [[tenure]].<ref>Goldstein, Gordon M. [https://books.google.com/books?id=5VpwAAAAQBAJ&dq=Katherine%20Lawrence%20(Putnam)&pg=PT14 ''Lessons in Disaster: Mcgeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam.''] New York: Times Books/Henry Holt and Co, 2008.</ref>

Following his promotion to [[full professor]] in 1953, Bundy was appointed [[Dean (education)|dean]] of Harvard's [[Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences|Faculty of Arts and Sciences]]. Only 34, he remains the youngest person to have received a decanal appointment in the university's history as of 2019. An effective and popular administrator, Bundy led policy changes intended to develop Harvard as a class-blind, merit-based university with a reputation for stellar academics.<ref>{{cite book
  | last = Kabaservice
  | first = Geoffrey
  | title = The Guardians: Kingman Brewster, His Circle, and the Rise of the Liberal Establishment
  | publisher = Henry Holt & Co.
  | location = New York
  | year = 2004
  | pages = 136–140
  | isbn = 0-8050-6762-0 }}</ref> He was elected a Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1954.<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=6 April 2011}}</ref> Bundy was listed as one of the "young American scholars known as 'New Conservatives'" by Peter Viereck in 1956.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Viereck |first1=Peter |title=Conservatism from John Adams to Winston Churchill |date=2017 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |page=107 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=miun.ajc7645.0001.001&view=1up&seq=109}}</ref> During his time as a Dean at Harvard, Bundy first met Senator John F. Kennedy who sat on the Harvard Board of Overseers, and got to know him well.{{sfn|Langguth|2000|p=231}} He was elected to the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 1991.<ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=McGeorge+Bundy&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2022-04-07 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref>