Editing McGeorge Bundy (section)

==Return to academia==
He left government in 1966 to serve as president of the [[Ford Foundation]],<ref name="DesMoinesRegister">{{cite news|title=People in the News ... Bundy Takes Over|newspaper=[[The Des Moines Register]]|date=March 3, 1966}}</ref> remaining in this position until 1979. On 12 October 1968, Bundy criticized the Vietnam War in a speech, saying: "There is no prospect of military victory against North Vietnam by any level of U.S. military force which is acceptable or desirable."{{sfn|Langguth|2000|p=526}}

After testifying before the [[Church Committee]] in 1975, Bundy issued a statement: "As far as I ever knew, or know now, no one in the White House or at the Cabinet level ever gave any approval of any kind to any CIA effort to assassinate anyone." Bundy added: "I told the committee in particular that it is wholly inconsistent with what I know of President Kennedy and his brother Robert that either of them would have given any such order or authorization or consent to anyone through any channel."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/07/12/archives/2-former-kennedy-aides-deny-assassination-plots.html|title = 2 Former Kennedy Aides Deny Assassination Plots|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 12 July 1975}}</ref>

Beginning in 1979, Bundy returned to academia as a professor of [[history]] at [[New York University]]. He was [[professor emeritus]] from 1989 until his death. During this period, he helped found the group known as the "Gang of Four," whose other members were [[George F. Kennan]], [[Robert McNamara]] and [[Gerard C. Smith|Gerard Smith]]; together they spoke and wrote about American nuclear policies. They published an influential 1983 ''[[Foreign Affairs]]'' article that proposed ending the US policy of "first use of nuclear weapons to stop a Soviet invasion of Europe".<ref name="danner"/> He also wrote ''Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years'' (1988). Their work has been credited with contributing to the [[Strategic Arms Limitation Talks#SALT II Treaty|SALT II treaty]] a decade later.<ref name="danner"/>

Bundy was employed by the [[Carnegie Corporation of New York]] from 1990 until his death, serving as chair of the Committee on Reducing the Nuclear Danger (1990–1993) and scholar-in-residence (1993–1996).