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McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, has joined the exclusive club in Washington, D.C., whose refusal to admit Negroes caused Attorney General Robert Kennedy to resign in protest.
Robert Kennedy had called the club's color bar "inconceivable." Other top administrative officials who quit the Metropolitan Club to protest its ban of African diplomats include Angier Biddle Duke, Chief of Protocol, and Assistant Attorney General Burke Marshall, chief of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division.
The White House has declined to comment on the matter. Bundy was accepted to the club in September under a provision for administrative officials which waives the usual lengthy waiting period. Bundy was nominated by friends on his arrival in Washington last January.
Bundy was quoted in the Boston Globe as explaining that "this is a problem of personal judgment. In my judgment it implies no disagreement or difference of purpose with the Attorney General, for whom I have the greatest personal and professional respect."
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