Item COLD WAR 27/79 - Transcript of interview with McGeorge Bundy, security adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant for National Security Affairs to US Presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1961-1966, relating to the influence of Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor, Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-1951, and 1957-1963, on the US approach to the Berlin Crisis, 1961; the ultimatum, by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, to the western powers to withdraw from West Berlin, Nov 1958; the increase in the build up of US conventional forces in western Europe during the administration of US President Kennedy, 1961-1963; the character of Khrushchev during the Berlin Crisis, 1961; the summit meeting between Khrushchev and Kennedy, Vienna, Austria, Jun 1961; the US military defence of West Berlin, 1961; the speech made by Kennedy, broadcast on US television, on the Berlin Crisis, 25 Jul 1961; the construction of the Berlin Wall, 13 Aug 1961; the visit of US Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson to West Berlin, Aug 1961; the annoyance of Willy Brandt, Mayor of West Berlin, at the slowness of the US response to the Soviet construction of the Berlin Wall, Aug 1961; the ordering of US troops to travel through the German Democratic Republic on the autobahn in order to reinforce West Berlin, 1961; the face off between Soviet and US tanks, Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin, Oct 1961; the visit to and speech by US President Kennedy to West Berlin, Jun 1963; the continuation of US policy towards West Berlin during the administrations of US Presidents Dwight David Eisenhower and Kennedy, 1953-1963; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962. 22pp