Zumwalt

by Larry Berman

in World War II, 71–85

  Japanese navy, 71–72, 77, 79–83, 85–88

  John F. Kennedy, 422, 423

  Johnson, Hiram, 39

  Johnson, Jay, 22–23, 423

  Johnson, Louis, 102–3

  Johnson, Lyndon B., 307

  presidency of, 7, 142, 161–62, 164, 188–89, 250

  Vietnam policy of, 7, 161, 188–89

  withdrawal from presidential race by, 162, 168

  Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), 131, 134, 138, 188, 214–15, 217–18, 223, 226–28, 238–39, 289, 305–6, 325, 330

  Joint Committee on Atomic Energy (JCAE), 143–44

  Jones, John Paul, 1, 135–36

  Jordan, Vernon, 286–87

  Jordan Crisis of 1970, 358

  Kauai, Hawaii, 168

  Kauffman, Draper L., 281

  Kaufman, Robert, 141

  Kennedy, John F., 128–39, 141, 256

  assassination of, 142, 459

  Cuban Missile Crisis and, 132–37

  Kenwood Golf and Country Club, 215–16

  Kerr, Andy, 219

  Kerr, Howard, 166–71, 174–76, 188–91, 204, 255, 265–66, 308, 368, 444, 463, 464

  Key Biscayne, Fla., 288, 291, 323, 352

  Khe Sanh, Battle of, 161

  Khrushchev, Nikita, 134–35

  Kidd, Isaac “Ike,” 135, 210, 258, 298, 355–57, 359–60, 460

  King, Ernest J., 12, 68, 71, 444

  King, Jerome H., Jr., 214, 222–25, 469, 470

  King, Martin Luther, Jr., 277–78

  Kings River, 29

  Kinkaid, Thomas Cassin, 79–80

  Kintberger, Leon S., 68, 102–3, 450

  Kirkpatrick, Jeane, 380–81

  Kirkwood, Ron, 203, 412, 468

  Kiska, 75–77

  Kissinger, Henry, 24, 218, 272–73, 297, 305, 334–37, 341–44

  China visits of, 314, 320, 328–29, 377–78

  ERZ’s condemnation of, 387–89

  memoirs of, 350

  relationship of ERZ and, 212, 239, 283, 288–91, 295–96, 307, 315–20, 322, 323–24, 387–89, 481

  as Secretary of State, 325, 346–54, 363–68, 376–78, 380–82, 387–89

  as Special Assistant for National Security Affairs, 312–32, 478

  Kitty Hawk, 274–78, 284, 293, 306, 476

  race rioting on, 275–78, 279, 280, 281, 309

  Knickerbocker, Mel, 87, 455

  Korean War, 112, 463

  ERZ’s service in, 3, 107–8, 113, 421

  Korth, Fred, 138, 462

  Kuznetsov, Vasily, 137

  Lader, Philip, 6, 18, 24, 443

  Laird, Melvin, 347

  relationship of ERZ and, 212–17, 290–91, 305, 331, 468

  as Secretary of Defense, 11, 191–92, 228–29, 231, 235, 239, 288, 313–16, 318–19, 321–22, 329, 340, 345, 348

  Laos, 181, 279

  Lawrence, James, 2, 42

  Lawrence, T. E., 87

  Leavitt, R. P., 307

  Le Duc Tho, 305, 313, 318, 336, 381–82

  Lee, James, 398

  Lee Kuan Yew, 226

  Lehman, John F., 25, 274, 476

  Leipelt, Bernard R., 398

  Lemnitzer, Lyman, 141

  leukemia, 11, 21

  Leyte Gulf, 79–80

  Leyte Gulf, Battle of, 2, 79, 358

  Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963, 6, 240–41

  Lincoln, Abraham, 301, 308

  Little Hibuson Island, 82–83

  Longan, P. M., 37

  Long Beach, 123, 146–47

  Long Beach, Calif., 38–39, 46, 74, 75

  Long Binh, 192–93

  Lon Nol, 186, 328

  Lord, Winston, 314

  Los Angeles, Calif., 30, 32

  Lowry, W. Joe, 295

  McCain, John S., 173

  McCloy, John, 137

  McDermott, P. M., 244

  McDonald, David, 7, 147, 148–49, 155–58, 258, 292, 356, 360, 459

  McGovern, George, 281, 321

  McNamara, Robert, 129, 288, 305, 311, 458

  as Secretary of Defense, 7, 131–32, 134–38, 145–46, 155–59, 162, 292

  Vietnam policy of, 132

  Maginnes, Nancy, 289

  Mahon, George, 145

  Malden, Karl, 9, 398

  Malott, Mrs. John, 269

  Malpass, Ray, 93

  Manchuria, 5, 88–89

  Marine Corps, U.S., 20, 70–71, 99, 108, 127, 148, 230, 276–78, 414

  Marine Corps Birthday Ball, 287–88, 296

  Mariner, Rosemary Bryant, 15–16, 268, 475

  Marrow Foundation, 10–11

  Marshall, George C., 87, 456

  ERZ and, 105–6, 218, 317, 379

  Marshall, Katherine Tupper Brown, 105, 218

  Medicare Bill, 117

  Mediterranean Sea, 72, 90, 102, 210, 235, 242, 356

  Meet the Press, 368, 377

  Meir, Golda, 349–50

  Mekong Delta, 9, 16, 163–64, 171, 172, 176, 179–80, 183, 186, 192, 225, 402, 415, 469

  Mekong River, 172, 177, 187

  Mellon, Paul, 216

  Merszei, Zoltan, 10–11, 406

  Mexican-American War, 41

  Middle East peace negotiations, 348

  Mikawa, Gunichi, 71, 451

  Miles, Milton E. “Mary,” 5, 86–87, 454

  Military Airlift Command (MAC), 349

  Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV), 161, 163, 168, 172, 187–91

  ERZ as chief of Naval Advisory Group of, 164

  Studies and Observations Group (MACVSOG) of, 187

  Miller, George H., 294–95

  Miller, Jerry, 158–59, 250–52, 460

  Mitchell, John, 335–38

  Monsanto, 406

  Moorer, Thomas, 7, 23, 158, 162–64, 167, 191, 213–19, 227–28, 234, 241, 258, 292, 314–16, 325–27, 337–43, 479–80

  opposition to ERZ as CNO by, 214–18, 222–23, 226

  relationship of ERZ and, 218, 236, 239, 273, 282, 300, 363–64, 367, 369, 469

  Morgan, Jim, 195, 467

  Morison, Elting E., 231

  Mormon church, 333, 337

  Morse code, 247

  Moscow, 272, 364, 366

  Mountbatten, Lord Louis, 72–73

  Muffley, Ned, 371

  Muharsky, Joe, 6, 26

  Mullane, Thomas, 197–99, 467

  Mullen, Mike, 5–6

  multiple independently targeted reentry vehicles (MIRVs), 238, 352, 367–68

  Murphy, Dan, 290, 294, 305, 478

  Murphy, George, 224

  My Father, My Son (film), 9, 398

  My Father, My Son (Zumwalt and Zumwalt), 392, 398, 444

  Narva, Dr. William M. (Bill), 227, 398–99, 403, 445, 470, 488

  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 282

  National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP), 10–11, 399

  National Newspaper Publishers Association, 263–64

  National Organization for Women, 267

  National Security Agency (NSA), 318

  National Security Council, 3, 272, 290, 314, 319, 325–26, 335, 339, 413

  Executive Committee of, 132–34

  NSC 68 of, 141, 419

  National Urban League, 286–87

  National War College, 6

  ERZ’s assignment to, 127–30, 358

  Native Americans, 267, 276

  Naval Academy Alumni Association, 294

  Naval Affairs Committee, 52

  Naval Air Force, 369

  Naval Air Systems Command of the Pacific (NAVAIRSYSCOM), 280

  Naval Forces Vietnam (NAVFORV), 178–79, 181

  Naval Intelligence, 328, 344, 466

  Naval Reserve, U.S., 39, 223–24

  Naval Reserve Training Center, 342

  Naval War College, 109, 206, 357

  Navy, U.S.:

  accelerated promotion of ERZ in, 126–27, 130, 137, 149–52, 162–64

  African Americans in, 13–14, 25, 11
5–16, 215, 257–66, 271–72, 274–84, 297, 299, 303–4, 370

  aircraft carriers in, 274–84, 300, 332

  as all-volunteer force, 16, 193–94, 211, 242–44, 256, 303

  antiship missile system (Harpoon) of, 236

  Atlantic Fleet of, 134, 298, 359, 370

  aviation in, 250–54, 369

  Brown Water Navy of, 4, 6, 7, 163–64, 170, 179–80, 207, 210, 229, 320, 465

  bureaucracy in, 117, 157, 231

  chain of command in, 248–49, 261, 262, 285

  clash of civil government authority with, 135–36, 144

  Coastal Surveillance Force of, 171

  cost-saving measures in, 102–3, 147, 156–57, 237, 242

  culture and discipline of, 2, 11, 12, 262, 302–3, 307, 309

  DDG-1000 Zumwalt class destroyer in, 423, 490

  Division of Systems Analysis for, 7

  equal opportunity established by ERZ in, 13–14, 258–72, 285–87

  ERZ as Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) in, 2, 3, 6, 7, 11–16, 20, 24–27, 33, 87, 111, 117, 123, 159, 175–76, 197, 213–73, 278, 281–378, 421

  ERZ as combat information officer (CIC) in, 74, 78, 80

  ERZ’s devotion to personnel and veterans of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9–14, 16–17, 22–23, 24–25, 194–97, 244, 457–58

  ERZ’s Project Sixty concept for, 231–36, 301, 355, 358, 471–72

  ERZ’s reform and modernization of, 1–2, 3, 11–14, 23, 25, 26, 213, 220, 229, 231–70, 310

  Espiritu Santo Group of, 71

  Filipinos in, 13–14, 44, 116, 260, 263, 297

  First Fleet of, 7, 210, 246, 356

  flogging abolished in, 12

  From Street to Fleet program of, 274

  history and tradition of, 1, 2, 12–14, 27

  Inshore Patrol Craft 31 of, 16

  liberalized regulations and practices of, 2, 11, 194, 244, 246–50

  Mobile Riverine Force (Task Force 117) of, 164, 171, 172, 179, 180, 184

  modernization of ships and weapons systems in, 211–12, 237–42

  Mod-Squad (Destroyer Squadron 26) of, 2, 11, 255, 265–66

  nuclear powered ships of, 118, 121–22, 145, 146–47, 159–60, 162, 174, 234, 239–40, 332, 370

  Pacific Fleet of, 215, 250, 278, 279, 287, 303, 359

  Polaris and Poseidon missile systems of, 211, 239, 370

  problem of family separation in, 244, 245, 246, 302

  problem of personnel retention in, 242, 244, 252–55

  racial and gender discrimination in, 3, 13–14, 25, 115–16, 245, 256–72, 274–88, 304, 309–10, 323, 370

  Resources Analysis Group of, 233–34

  retention study groups in, 6, 252–55, 258–59, 267

  retirement of ERZ from, 8, 371–78, 469

  River Patrol Force (Task Force 116) of, 171, 178, 179, 180, 196

  rules of engagement (ROE) of, 176–77, 200

  sea-control ships (SCS) of, 236

  SEALs unit of, 196–97, 203, 204

  Seventh Fleet of, 80, 163–64, 210–11, 226, 232, 279, 331, 468

  Sixth Fleet of, 210, 226, 293, 351, 356, 358, 472

  Soviet navy vs., 11–12, 124–25, 134–35, 145, 147, 217, 231, 237–42

  SSN-688 Los Angeles class of submarines in, 160

  submarines in, 160, 174, 211, 239–40, 370

  Swift Boat PCF-35 of, 6, 9, 402

  Swift Boat PCF-73 of, 17

  Task Force 32.5 of, 79

  Task Force 74 of, 332

  Task Force 77 of, 107–8

  Task Force 115 of, 179, 462

  Task Force 194 of, 183

  Task Force Baker of, 76

  Task Force Roger of, 76

  Task Force Thirty-eight of, 80

  Twelfth Naval District of, 70

  uniforms of, 42, 69, 249–50

  women in, 14, 15–16, 254, 266–71, 296, 297, 370

  worst open-sea defeat of, 71

  Navy Band, U.S., 25, 371–72, 374

  Navy Department, U. S., 118, 222

  Nitze’s controversial appointment as secretary of, 138–49, 223

  “Navy Hymn,” 372

  Navy League, 97

  Navy Material Command, 143

  Navy Race Relations and Minority Affairs Programs, 263

  Negroponte, John, 382

  Nelson, Billie, 75, 84–85, 92

  Nelson, Horatio, 177

  Neptune’s Inferno (Hornfischer), 71

  Newport, R.I., 109, 166

  Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, 389

  New York, 53–56

  New York, N.Y., 55, 95–96, 137

  New York Times, 49, 85, 96, 142, 161, 166–67, 286, 290

  Nguyen Van Thieu, 306, 322, 328, 382–83, 385

  Nha Trang, 207, 225

  Nicholas II, Czar of Russia, 88

  Nicholson, Richard, 174, 220–21, 255, 256, 450

  NILO (naval intelligence liaison officer) program, 184–87, 466

  Nitze, Paul, 6–7, 126, 127, 128–52, 320, 347, 379, 419

  controversial Naval Secretary appointment of, 138–49

  Cuban Missile Crisis and, 132–37

  political opposition to, 139–42

  relationship of ERZ and, 7, 18, 87, 129–44, 146–48, 150–52, 154, 155–57, 159, 162–63, 168–69, 174, 178, 199, 205, 226–27, 241, 258, 300, 346, 354, 386, 391, 458–59, 363–64

  Rickover and, 143–47

  Nitze, Phyllis, 142, 151, 386, 391

  Nixon, Richard M., 169, 190, 266, 351

  Cabinet of, 191–92, 212

  national defense policy of, 237–41, 272–73

  presidency of, 11, 24, 191–92, 209, 212, 213, 216–17, 237–42, 272, 281, 282–83, 288–91, 293, 295–98, 306–53, 359–63, 366–68, 376, 377, 480

  resignation of, 373, 379, 382–83

  secrecy and back-channel communication of, 312–18, 344, 385

  Watergate scandal and, 311, 323, 324–25, 332, 337, 340, 345, 349, 353, 359, 382–83

  White House tapes of, 312, 324, 483

  Nixon, Thelma “Pat,” 362

  Nixon Doctrine, 237

  non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, 392, 410–12

  Norman, William, 13–14, 259–65, 288

  North, Oliver, 416–17

  North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 139–40, 226, 240, 419

  North Carolina, University of, 219–20, 226, 463

  Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) at, 104–5, 197

  North Island Naval Air Station, 280

  North Korea, 107–8, 419

  North Vietnam, 131, 171, 275, 313, 318, 381–82

  Easter Offensive of, 272–75, 279

  POWs in, 247, 381

  Rolling Thunder air strikes against, 168, 279

  Tet Offensive of, 160–62, 164, 168, 192, 203

  U.S. air operations against, 275, 278–80

  see also Vietnam War

  North Vietnamese Army (NVA), 160–62, 185, 186

  Norway, 50–52

  Novak, Robert, 381

  “Ode to Captain Zumwalt,” 152–53

  Office of Management and Budget (OMB), 408, 410, 484

  Office of Naval Intelligence, 128

  Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (OPNAV), 181, 220, 231, 233, 236, 263

  ERZ’s early work for, 156–59, 164–65

  F-111B project of, 154, 156–59, 162, 461

  Plans Division of, 253

  Systems Analysis Division (OP-96) of, 155–60, 162, 164–65, 174

  Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, 128

  Officer Candidate School, 166

  Old Dominion University, 386

  Oldendorf, Jesse Bartlett “Oley,” 80

  Olongapo, 275

  On Watch (Zumwalt), 379, 381, 416, 443, 444, 486

  Orderly Departure Program (ODP), 393–94

  Oswald, Larry, 192, 194

  Pacific Ocean, 2, 73, 166–68, 275

  minefields in, 86, 108

  Packard, David, 235, 314–1
5, 356

  Page Conway, 224–25

  Pakistan, 313–14, 329

  conflict of India with, 330–32

  Palau Islands, 79

  Paris, 108, 188

  Paris Peace Accords, 381, 383

  Paris peace talks, 272, 305–6, 313, 318

  Parrot’s Beak, 178, 183, 194

  Parsons, 332–33

  PBRs (river patrol boats), 171-72, 178, 181–84, 204, 207, 209, 465, 468–69

  Pearl Harbor, 70, 72, 74, 78, 95, 167

  Japanese attack on, 66, 68, 85, 248, 356

  Peet, Ray, 115, 246, 457

  rivalry of ERZ and, 123, 361–62

  Peking, 88–89

  Pentagon, see Defense Department, U.S.

  Pentagon Papers, 332

  Perle, Richard, 409

  Perper, Martin, 386

  Perry, Oliver Hazard, 2, 42

  Persian Gulf War, 413

  Petersen, Forrest, 159–60

  Pham Manh Khue, 225, 384–85

  Phelps, 73–74, 75–78, 452

  Philippine Islands, 79, 106, 132, 168, 173, 204, 217, 275

  Pickett, Bryan, 70, 71–72

  Pinehurst, N.C., 105, 218, 317, 379, 456

  Pirnie, Alexander, 297, 304, 479

  Pismo Beach, Calif., 35, 36

  Plato, 121, 150

  Playboy, 38, 390

  Poisoning the Press (Feldstein), 338, 481

  Poland, German invasion of, 41

  poliomyelitis, 109, 197, 394, 403

  Politburo, 382

  Polo, Marco, 314

  Ponder, Joe, 16

  Ponder, Rebecca, 16

  Portugal, 130

  Potomac River, 7, 162, 289

  Powers, Bob, 174–76, 180, 195, 200, 220, 308, 465, 470

  POW/MIA dependents, 254

  Price, Arthur, 17, 171, 178, 182, 196, 405–6

  Princeton University, 320

  Pringle, Don, 343

  Proxmire, William, 473

  Puget Sound Blood Center, 395–96

  Pursley, Robert E., 307–8

  Quincy, 71–72

  Qui Nguyen, 7–8

  Rach Giang Thanh River, 177, 183–86

  Radford, Charles, 221, 327–30, 332–43, 481

  Rafferty, Max, 307

  Rand Corporation, 346, 463, 484

  Rauch, Charles F. “Chick,” 174, 180, 205, 252, 464

  Reagan, Ronald, 219, 368–69, 408–9, 411, 489

  Reckner, James, 8, 466

  Rectanus, Earl Frank “Rex,” 170, 172–73, 179, 184, 186, 193, 209, 273, 328, 343–44, 465

  on ERZ, ix, 1, 166, 172, 174, 176, 177, 180, 181

  Red Bluff, Calif., 28–29

  Reef Points, 44

  Reid, J. M., Jr., 97, 102, 456

  Renaissance Weekends, 3–4, 18–19, 23–24, 412–13, 422

  Republic, The (Plato), 121

  Republican Party, 34, 60, 216, 297, 380, 418

  Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces (RVNAF), 187–88

  Rhodes Scholarships, 102–3, 157, 450, 456, 461

  Rich, Anna Frank (aunt), 33