[Rarebooks] FS: Robert McNamara Inscribed to William Bundy

[Charles Agvent]

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our web site.  It includes several interesting items from William 
Bundy's library, several books signed by D. H. Lawrence, a run of Rivers 
of America books mostly in very nice condition, fine leatherbound sets 
including Mark Twain, a few interesting baseball items, and others.  All 
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[McNAMARA,  Robert]  KAUFMANN, William W.  THE  McNAMARA
       STRATEGY  Inscribed by Robert McNamara to William Bundy.  New
       York: Harper  &  Row (1968). First Edition. Early  not  first
       printing.  A  special  copy bound in full blue  leather  with
       gilt decorations  and  lettering, marbled endpapers, and  all
       edges gilt.  INSCRIBED by Robert McNamara to William Bundy on
       28 October  1964: "To Bill, with my admiration/and thanks for
       his contributions/to        what      is       called     the
       'McNamara/Strategy.'/Bob McNamara." William Bundy had a long,
       distinguished  service  in the government in the CIA  and  in
       the Defense  Department. He was appointed Assistant Secretary
       of State  for Far Eastern Affairs in March 1964 reporting  to
       the Secretary  of  Defense,  McNamara. His  brother  McGeorge
       Bundy was  Special Assistant for National Security Affairs to
       Kennedy  and  Johnson  from 1961-1966.  Both  are  considered
       primary  architects of America's involvement in Vietnam. Days
       before  this  book was inscribed to him, on 19 October  1964,
       William  Bundy issued one of the most important memos on  the
       conflict,  "The  Choices We Face in Vietnam,"  rejecting  the
       expectations  of the domino theory about the consequences  of
       a Communist    victory  in   Southeast   Asia,   consequently
       rejecting  much  of the political basis for U.S  policy,  and
       arguing  for  negotiating  a   settlement.  On  November  23,
       McNamara  and  Secretary of State Dean Rusk rejected  Bundy's
       ideas.  In  THE  BEST  AND THE  BRIGHTEST,  David  Halberstam
       stated  that during the Kennedy and Johnson  administrations,
       William  Bundy's  name "would probably be on more  pieces  of
       paper dealing  with  Vietnam  over a seven-year  period  than
       anyone  else's."  A superb association copy inscribed  at  an
       important  point  in  the war. Small hole on one  page.  Near
       Fine in Very Good dustwrapper.                       $1500.00

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