A Man of the Establishment

摘要

Before mcgeorge bundy arrived at the white house in 1961, the office of national-security adviser was only another anonymous box on the organization chart. President Eisenhower, the military man accustomed to a clear and accountable chain of command, preferred to govern through the mandarins at the State Department and the CIA. His own national-security adviser was a retired general who moved paper and organized meetings. Robert Cutler—"Boston's Bobby Cutler"—was a Brahmin who counted Harvey Bundy among his closest friends; Harvey, former assistant secretary of state in the Hoover administration, assistant to Secretary of War Henry Stimson in the Roosevelt administration, father of McGeorge.