Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1985 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
4 reels
Scope and content
Memos of the Special Assistant for National Security Affairs: McGeorge Bundy to President Johnson, 1963-1966 are microfilmed copies of declassified memoranda relating primarily to American foreign policy, 1963-1966. The papers include Bundy's comments on the Alliance for Progress; atomic energy; the Atlantic Nuclear Force; European security; relations with the People's Republic of China; foreign assistance; the Vietnam War; the International Monetary Fund; the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO); the Test Ban Treaty; and the United Nations. Reels include specific mention of the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 29 Nov 1963; meetings with former President Dwight David Eisenhower, 9 Dec 1963; visit by French President Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle; interview with First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, 5 Mar 1964; the French split with NATO; press attacks on Latin American policy, 25 Mar 1964; National Security Council meeting relating to Indochina, 15 May 1964, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) reports relating to the Cuban assassination of alleged agents, 3 Jun 1964; the civil crisis in the Congo, 1964; meeting with John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M Warburg Professor of Economics, Harvard University, 15 Jul 1964; reports from the US ambassador to the Republic of Vietnam, Maxwell Taylor, 1964; statement on the Gulf of Tonkin Decision, 15 Aug 1964; correspondence with Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie relating to economic aid to Congo, 20 Aug 1964; the escalation of the Gulf of Tonkin 'incident', 18 Sep-6 Oct 1964; United Kingdom Arms Purchase Program, 26 Oct 1964; correspondence with British Prime Minister Rt Hon (James) Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx; meeting with UN Secretary General U Thant concerning North Vietnamese aggression at the Gulf of Tonkin, 5 Aug 1964; meetings with CIA Director John McCone, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk; the revolt in the Dominican Republic, 1965; the Warren Commission Report, 7 Jul 1965; and the Kashmir Crisis, 1965
System of arrangement
Papers are arranged in chronological sections: 23 Nov 1963-30 Sep 1964 (MF 384); 1 Oct 1964-31 May 1965 (MF 385); 1 Jun 1965-14 Oct 1965 (MF 386); 15 Oct-28 Feb 1966 (MF 387)
General Information
Repository
Custodial history
University Publications of America, Inc., Bethesda, MD, with fully indexed guide edited by Robert Lester and compiled by Martin Schipper
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies may be printed off the microfilm/microfiche for research purposes and are charged at cost.
Enquiries concerning the copyright of the original material should be addressed to University Publications of America Inc.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Finding aids
This collection level description. The following published guide is available in the Reading Room: Robert Lester and Martin Schipper (eds.), Memos of the Special Assistant for National Security Affairs: McGeorge Bundy to President Johnson, 1963-1966 (University Publications of America, Inc, Bethesda, MD, 1985)
Existence and location of originals
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, TX, USA
Note
Compiled Jun 1999
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Alliances
- Arms control
- Arms sales
- Central government
- Defence
- Development aid
- Disarmament
- East West relations
- Economic aid
- Energy resources
- Foreign relations
- Government
- International conflicts
- International instruments
- International law
- International organizations
- International politics
- International relations
- International tensions
- Military equipment
- Nonrenewable energy sources
- Nuclear energy
- Nuclear weapons
- Organizations
- Peace
- Public administration
- State security
- Test Ban Treaty (1963)
- Vietnam War (1945-1975)
- War
- Weapons
- Wars (events)
People and Organisations
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.