Presidential Cabinet Official. He was the Special Assistant to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson for National Security Affairs from 1961 until 1966. After graduating from Yale University in 1940 he joined the office of Facts and Figures in Washington, DC, and taught at Harvard University after World War II. He was Dean of Arts and Sciences (1953 to 1961). When John F. Kennedy was elected president, he appointed him as his National Security Adviser. He continued to serve Johnson as National Security Adviser after Kennedy's assassination in 1963 and left office in 1966. He was President of the Ford Foundation, and was also a Professor of History at New York University (1979 to 1989). He was the author of several books including "Presidential Promises and Performance," (1980), "Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years" (1988), and "Reducing Nuclear Danger: The Road Away from the Brink" (1993). He died of a heart attack in September 1996.
Presidential Cabinet Official. He was the Special Assistant to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson for National Security Affairs from 1961 until 1966. After graduating from Yale University in 1940 he joined the office of Facts and Figures in Washington, DC, and taught at Harvard University after World War II. He was Dean of Arts and Sciences (1953 to 1961). When John F. Kennedy was elected president, he appointed him as his National Security Adviser. He continued to serve Johnson as National Security Adviser after Kennedy's assassination in 1963 and left office in 1966. He was President of the Ford Foundation, and was also a Professor of History at New York University (1979 to 1989). He was the author of several books including "Presidential Promises and Performance," (1980), "Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years" (1988), and "Reducing Nuclear Danger: The Road Away from the Brink" (1993). He died of a heart attack in September 1996.
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