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	Ellsworth Bunker: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		Ellsworth Bunker (May 11, 1894 - September 30, 1984) was U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam, 1967-73.
		Bunker forged a reputation as an accomplished statesman prior to his assignment to South Vietnam.
		Following the conclusion of the Vietnam War, Bunker headed the US team involved in the drawing up of the 1978 Panama treaty[?].
	www.encyclopedian.com /el/Ellsworth-Bunker.html (117 words)

	Schaffer \| Ellsworth Bunker
		Bunker brought to his assignments the classic skills and qualities that are vital to diplomatic success -- integrity, creativity, realism, precision, and an ability to step into the shoes of his negotiating partners and understand their priorities.
		Although Bunker held that every negotiation is different, several common techniques stand out in his third-party and bilateral efforts.
		Ellsworth Bunker died in 1984 at the age of 90.
	www.unc.edu /depts/diplomat/archives_roll/2003_10-12/schaffer_bunker/schaffer_bunker.html (2693 words)

	ipedia.com: Ellsworth Bunker Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Ellsworth Bunker was born in Yonkers, New York, USA in 1894.
		Ellsworth Bunker (May 11, 1894 - September 30, 1984) was an American diplomat.
		Following the conclusion of the Vietnam War, Bunker headed the US team involved in the drawing up of the 1978 Panama treaty.
	www.ipedia.com /ellsworth_bunker.html (227 words)

	Ellsworth Bunker: Global Troubleshooter, Vietnam Hawk, by Howard B. Schaffer. Introduction. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Bunker's place in the annals of American diplomatic history has been distorted by his assignment to Saigon, where he served as ambassador for six crucial years during the Vietnam War.
		The prominence of Bunker's role as a "hawk" in wartime Saigon and the controversies that still surround it should not obscure the major contributions he made to the successful practice of American diplomacy.
		Perhaps most important, the way Ellsworth Bunker went about achieving the difficult goals assigned him can teach our generation a great deal that is as useful to the conduct of foreign policy in these very different times as it was in his day.
	uncpress.unc.edu /chapters/schaffer_ellsworth.html (674 words)

	Ellsworth Bunker
		Born in Yonkers, New York, Ellsworth Bunker was a businessman who became a diplomat and was best-known for his role as U.S. ambassador to Vietnam from 1967 to 1973.
		Bunker began his diplomatic career as ambassador to Argentina in 1951 and subsequently served in Italy from 1952 to 1953 and India from 1956 to 1961.
		In his eighties, Bunker helped negotiate the Panama Canal treaty of 1977, by which the United States agreed to give Panama control of the canal by the year 2000.
	www.vietnamwar.net /Bunker.htm (134 words)

	[PRISONACT] IN prisoner needs support
		Ellsworth has started and participated in several study programs and was an educational tutor for many years.
		When Ellsworth continued speaking to Beck, Johnson began to get irate and stated “I want him handcuffed.” Ellsworth was suddenly surrounded by several officers, pulled out of a chair (he was sitting), slammed face-first into a table, and handcuffed behind his back.
		Ellsworth has recently filed a request to the Governor for parole, as well as a petition with the Commissioner of the DOC for a restoration of his credit time.
	www.prisonactivist.org /pipermail/prisonact-list/2001-July/003903.html (975 words)

	AUTOGRAPHS & MANUSCRIPTS: ELLSWORTH BUNKER - INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED
		Bunker was U.S. Ambassador to Argentina (1951), Italy (1952-1953), India (1956-1961) and Vietnam (1967-1973).
		In 1963, Bunker was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Special Distinction by President Johnson.
		In 1967, for the first time, a second Presidential Medal of Freedom with Special Distinction was presented to Bunker for accepting his post in Vietnam at the age of 73.
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/9_2004/politicians/17728-ELLSWORTH-BUNKER.htm (182 words)

	National Review: Ellsworth Bunker, RIP - obituary
		Ellsworth Bunker's life itself was a long triumph of devotion over pettiness and partisanship.
		A Democrat, Bunker was able to serve seven Presidents of both parties, apparently devoid of the fierce partisanship of Averell Harriman.
		Bunker will not be present at the trial now commencing of the suit brought by General William Westmoreland against CBS, but his depositions will help to establish the truth.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_v36/ai_3506240 (411 words)

	Ellsworth Bunker -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Ellsworth Bunker (born May 11, 1894 in Yonkers, (A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies) New York, deceased September 30, 1984) was an American diplomat.
		He then moved to government during the (United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany; 34th President of the United States (1890-1961)) Eisenhower administration.
		He was awarded the (Click link for more info and facts about Presidential Medal of Freedom) Presidential Medal of Freedom twice - the first time in 1963 and the second time in 1967.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/el/ellsworth_bunker.htm (146 words)

	LBJ's Strategy for Disengagement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker's charge from President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967 was to de-escalate the Vietnam conflict without losing the war.
		First, he sent Ellsworth Bunker to South Vietnam as the new ambassador with private instructions to prepare for the disengagement of American forces.
		Both have since died, but Bunker once related to me his recollections of that meeting and told me how his subsequent decisions as the senior American official in South Vietnam had been shaped by Johnson's directive to disengage American forces from Vietnam.
	www.historynet.com /vn/bllbjstrategy (1429 words)

	Military Review: Ellsworth Bunker: Global Troubleshooter, Vietna... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Bunker helped broker and negotiate agreements over West New Guinea, Yemen, the Dominican Republic, and the Panama Canal, but he might best be remembered as the Ambassador to South Vietnam, 1967-1973.
		Bunker was most effective as a negotiator, in part because of the trust five presidents placed in him.
		Bunker created an informal atmosphere, usually a secluded setting, in which the contending parties could develop familiar personal relations.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:135843323&... (479 words)

	The UNC Press, Ellsworth Bunker by Howard B. Schaffer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		In this first biography of Ellsworth Bunker (1894-1984), Howard Schaffer traces the life of one of postwar America's foremost diplomats from his formative years as a successful businessman and lobbyist through a long career in international affairs.
		After leaving Saigon on his seventy-ninth birthday, Bunker next became a key figure in the treaty negotiations, spanning three presidencies, that radically changed the operation and defense of the Panama Canal.
		Highlighting Bunker's views on the craft of diplomacy, Schaffer paints a complex picture of a man who devoted three decades to international affairs and sheds new light on post-World War II American diplomacy.
	uncpress.unc.edu /books/T-6981.html (319 words)

	ELLSWORTH BUNKER - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 01/28/1975
		I confess also to having derived particular satisfaction from the West New Guinea negotiation and the Dominican Republic settlement.
		While I have not yet found time to seriously contemplate the writing of books or memoirs, I am happy to respond to your request for an autograph." In 1963, Bunker was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Special Distinction by President Johnson "for extraordinary leadership and diplomatic service under arduous and taxing circumstances".
		His quiet and effective leadership of all American activities in Vietnam have made an immeasurable contribution to the progress of our efforts to assist that country to determine its own future without external interference.
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/3_2001/vietnam/ELLSWORTH_BUNKER.htm (399 words)

	Yale '62 - The Saigon Yale Club - Kevin Buckley
		Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker (Yale 1916) kept noticing Yale graduates in Vietnam and invited about a dozen of us to his residence for dinner sometime in 1968 or early 1969.
		Bunker repeated the courtesy at least three of four times while I was in Vietnam.
		If I had pressed him, Bunker would almost certainly have said that his information was secret, much too secret to disclose.
	www2.aya.yale.edu /classes/yc1962/buckley0704.html (610 words)

	Povich, Damon, Councilors Win
		The incumbent candidates on the Ellsworth City Council—Jonathan Mahon and Robert Crosthwaite—weathered challenges by Edward Grohoski and Gregory Lounder.
		Two new candidates were duking it out for the County Commission seat formerly held by Walter Bunker of Ellsworth, and Republican candidate Kenneth Shea of Ellsworth beat out his Democratic opponent, James Wagner of Sorrento.
		Democrat George Bunker Jr., who was ousted from the District 136 seat by Rep. Barry Gillis, R-Danforth, two years ago, won back his old seat by a slim margin.
	ellsworthamerican.com /archive/news2000/11-09-00/ea_news1_11-09-00.html (436 words)

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		Ellsworth, Aug. 26, by A. Burnham, Esq., Mr.
		Ellsworth, Jan. 27, Brother JOSEPH STANLEY, after a short and distressing illness caused by lung fever, pleurisy and congestion of the lungs, age 60 years, 6 months, 9 days.
		May the consoling angel comfort the hearts of those that mourn, and may the father be sustained by the Saviour and feel that those who have passed on before him are beckoning to him and the lone brother and sisters.
	www.mnopltd.com /jean/her971-672.html (6813 words)

	Carolyn M. Bunker
		She spent her growing years in North Sullivan at the home of her grandparents, James and Mariah Havey, as her parents were tending a lighthouse and her father was a Merchant Marine.
		In the mid-1930s, Carolyn married Gordon Bunker and moved to West Gouldsboro, where they raised their family and spent the rest of their lives.
		She is survived by one son, Wesley Bunker of Orland; two daughters, Ilene and her husband, Calvin Stinson Jr., Orice and her husband, Charles Stinson, all of Prospect Harbor; grandchildren, Wesley Bunker Jr.
	ellsworthamerican.com /archive/obit2002/09-02/ea_obit2_09-05-02.html (218 words)

	A Better War
		In the end, the mighty willpower of Abrams and diplomatic allies Ellsworth Bunker and William Colby was not enough.
		The triumvirate responsible for those successes was General Creighton Abrams, Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, and the director of the pacification program, William Colby.
		A fawning paean to General Creighton Abrams, Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, and former CIA chief William Colby and their stewardship of the Vietnam War from 1968 to 1975.
	www.tuvy.com /resource/books/a/A_Better_War.html (2379 words)

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		The bulk of the materials in this collection are "backchannel" cables between the U.S. ambassadors in Saigon (Henry Cabot Lodge, Ellsworth Bunker, and Graham Martin, successively) and the President's national security advisers (McGeorge Bundy, Henry Kissinger, and Brent Scowcroft, successively) regarding the situation in South Vietnam or the peace negotiations.
		The largest segment of the collection consists of communications between Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger during the period of the Paris peace talks.
		May 1973 Changeover from Ellsworth Bunker to Graham Martin as U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam.
	www.ibiblio.org /lia/president/FordLibrary/presnet/nsc_saigon_c127 (3910 words)

	Moïse's Bibliography: U.S. Policy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Oral histories (the complete transcripts) for a number of important figures in Lyndon Johnson's administration, including Ellsworth Bunker, Clark Clifford, William Colby, Everett Dirksen, Abe Fortas, Hubert Humphrey, Walt Rostow, and Dean Rusk, can be found on an Oral Histories Web page at the LBJ Presidential Library.
		These reports, written by US Ambassador to Vietnam Ellsworth Bunker, mostly date from 1967 and 1968; only 57 of the 862 pages in this collection were written in 1971, 1972, and 1973.
		Bunker was the U.S. ambassador in Saigon from 1967 to 1973, and a strong supporter of the war.
	hubcap.clemson.edu /~eemoise/policy.html (5184 words)

	Bruce Palmer
		Early in 1968, General Palmer was rumored to be in line to succeed General Westmoreland as commander, having earlier won the deep respect of Ellsworth Bunker, the United States Ambassador to South Vietnam.
		Bunker and General Palmer had worked together in the Dominican Republic in 1965, when the general commanded American troops sent to that country to quell civil war and Mr.
		Bunker headed diplomatic efforts to end the violence.
	www.mishalov.com /Palmer.html (745 words)

	1968: The Definitive Year
		Yet the MACV commander shared overall policy formulation in South Vietnam with the U.S. Ambassador, Ellsworth Bunker, a distinguished career diplomat.
		Ambassador Bunker chaired and General Westmoreland was a member of the Mission Council, the central U.S. policy and coordinating body within the country.
		Bunker was head of the US country team, and ComUSMACV while as a field commander nominally independent of him, in practice deferred to Bunker on political and policy matters." Dr. Graham A. Cosmas, CMH, Comments on draft chapter, dtd 23Nov94 (Vietnam Comment File).
	ehistory.osu.edu /vietnam/books/1968/0005.cfm (640 words)

	Merle Francis BUNKER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Merle Francis Bunker, 91, died Nov. 19,1999, at a Penobscot health-care facility.
		Merle is survived by his beloved wife of 66 years, Cora (Saunders) Bunker of Ellsworth; a special niece and her husband, Colene and Lloyd Astbury of Blue Hill; several other nieces and nephews.
		He is also survived by two sisters-in-aw, Frances Cousins of Blue Hill and Virginia Bunker of Ellsworth; and one brother-in-law, Rodney Saunders of Franklin.
	www.rootsweb.com /~mecpenob/PS18/PS18_296.HTM (204 words)

	GU \| SFS: Institute for the Study of Diplomacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Dean Acheson called him a rara avis, a political appointee who became a natural professional in diplomacy.
		His work there led a succession of presidents to assign Bunker difficult, politically sensitive troubleshooting tasks from Indonesia to Yemen to the Dominican Republic.
		A dedicated "hawk," Bunker helped shape U.S. policy as ambassador to wartime Saigon.
	isd.georgetown.edu /bunker_book_text.cfm (289 words)

	GU \| SFS: Institute for the Study of Diplomacy
		Named ambassador to Juan Peron's Argentina by Harry Truman in 1951, Bunker went on to serve six more presidents as ambassador to Italy, India, Nepal, and Vietnam and on special diplomatic assignments.
		Using letters Bunker sent to his wife and recently declassified messages he exchanged with Henry Kissinger, Schaffer examines how Bunker promoted the war effort and how he regarded his mission.
		After leaving Saigon on his seventy-ninth birthday, Bunker went on to become a key figure in the negotiations during the Nixon, Ford, and Carter administrations that radically changed the operation and defense of the Panama Canal.
	www12.georgetown.edu /sfs/isd/bunker_book_text.cfm (313 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Bulls to Bunker
		Bunker, Berkeley Lloyd (1906-1999) — also known as Berkeley L. Bunker — of Las Vegas,
		Bunker, Ellsworth (1894-1984) — of New York; Putney,
		Son of John E. Bunker and Mary A. (Alley) Bunker; married 1904 to Emily H. Plaisted.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/bully-bunker.html (851 words)

	Bunker
		Transcript, Ellsworth Bunker Oral History Interview I, 12/12/80, by Michael L. Gillette, Internet Copy, LBJ Library.
		That even the other side would respect the Tet truce, which proved to be incorrect, of course.
		One result of Tet--a minor result--was the fact that I finally got a good secure bunker.
	astro.temple.edu /~rimmerma/Bunker_Tet_LBOH.htm (3455 words)

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