It was obvious uh, that uh, the situation in Vietnam was far from stable in 1964 and that there, if in fact the United States was going to uh carry o…

- Mcgeorge Bundy

There is nearly always uh, a process of wanting contingency plans made in the military.

- Mcgeorge Bundy

Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils.

- Mcgeorge Bundy

Vietnam, really more accurately, Laos, was almost after Berlin the top problem at the beginning of the Kennedy Administration in '61, foreign problem.

- Mcgeorge Bundy

Well, it is alarming to have a president [Reagan] who doesn't know what he is doing.

- Mcgeorge Bundy

The most persistent of all attractive illusions in our country may be that racism can be ended by one single blow.

- Mcgeorge Bundy

Presidents and Lyndon Johnson was really no exception, very rapidly learned the difference between a contingency plan and an authorized act.

- Mcgeorge Bundy