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	Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Zumwalt next served as executive officer of the destroyer USS Saufley, and in March 1946 was transferred to the destroyer USS Zellars, as Executive Officer and Navigator.
		Zumwalt was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Dr. E.H. Zumwalt and Dr. Frances Zumwalt.
		Zumwalt's picture hangs in the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, near pictures of John Kerry, Robert McNamara, Warren Christopher, and other American dignitaries, in commemoration of a visit he made after normalization of relations between Vietnam and the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elmo_R._Zumwalt,_Jr. (1316 words)

	CNN - Retired Adm. Elmo Zumwalt dies - January 2, 2000
		Zumwalt believed he inadvertently caused the death of his own son, Elmo Zumwalt III, from cancer by ordering the spraying of Vietnam jungles with the defoliant Agent Orange-- which contained the toxic chemical dioxin -- when he was head of naval forces in Vietnam.
		Zumwalt, 79, commanded U.S. naval forces in Vietnam from 1968 to 1970 and was chief of naval operations from 1970 to 1974.
		Zumwalt's eldest son fought under his father's command in Vietnam and died of cancer in 1988 at the age of 42.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/US/01/02/zumwalt.obit.01 (701 words)

	Retired Adm. Elmo Russell (Bud) Zumwalt Dies
		Zumwalt was born in San Francisco in 1920 and grew up in Tulare, Calif. After graduating from the academy in 1942 (his class graduated early because of World War II), he served aboard destroyers.
		Zumwalt is survived by his wife, Mouza Coutelais-du- Roche Zumwalt; one son, James; two daughters, Anne Zumwalt Coppola, and Mouzetta Zumwalt-Weathers; six grandchildren; a sister, Saralee Zumwalt Crowe; and a brother, James G. Zumwalt.
		At 44, Zumwalt was the youngest naval officer promoted to rear admiral, and at 49, was the youngest four-star admiral to be appointed to the post of chief of naval operations.
	www.usna.com /WhatsNew/2000/Zumwalt.htm (796 words)

	Operation Sealords - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was developed by Vice Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., appointed COMNAVFORV (= Commander US Naval Forces Vietnam) in September 1968.
		When Admiral Zumwalt launched Sealords in October 1968 with the blessing of the new COMUSMACV (= Commander of US Military Assistance Command Vietnam), General Creighton Abrams, allied naval forces in South Vietnam were at peak strength.
		The Sealords (Southeast Asia Lake, Ocean, River, and Delta Strategy) program was a determined effort by U.S. Navy, South Vietnamese Navy, and allied ground forces to cut enemy supply lines from Cambodia and disrupt operations at his base areas deep in the delta.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operation_Sealords (801 words)

	The VVA Veteran
		Zumwalt’s son, former U.S. Navy Lt. Elmo R. Zumwalt III, commanded a Brown Water Navy river boat where his father had ordered the spraying of the dioxin-contaminated defoliant to deny cover to the enemy.
		Admiral Zumwalt’s mission was to force those in power to take responsibility for their actions and admit that Agent Orange killed more than vegetation.
		Admiral Zumwalt’s crusade began after his son was diagnosed with cancer in 1983.
	www.vva.org /TheVeteran/2000_01/presmess.htm (476 words)

	PILOT ONLINE - Shipbuilding's Deadly Legacy
		In the elder Zumwalt's lap is Elmo R. Zumwalt IV.
		Zumwalt fretted that the United States was losing its supremacy on the seas to the Soviet Union.
		Zumwalt's crusade and the death of his son were two great ironies in the admiral's life.
	www.hamptonroads.com /pilotonline/special/asbestos/zumwalt.html (1241 words)

	About Zumwalt - Thurman-Zumwalt Foundation
		As a private citizen, Zumwalt became involved in humanitarian concerns relating to the Vietnam struggle, serving conspicuously as a spokesman for US servicemen suffering from affects of the herbicide Agent Orange.
		At age 49, Zumwalt thus became the youngest officer to hold the Navy's top job and the rank of admiral.
		In 1965 Zumwalt became the youngest rear admiral in the Navy's history.
	www.tzfoundation.org /zumwalt.html (247 words)

	Elmo R. Zumwalt
		Elmo's father, Adm. Elmo Russell Zumwalt Jr., as commander of the American in-country naval forces in South Vietnam, was the one who ordered this defoliation in 1968.
		Elmo R. Zumwalt 3d, son of the admiral who ordered the spraying of Agent Orange in Vietnam, and who was exposed to the defoliant himself, died of cancer today at his home.
		ELMO : I AM A LAWYER and I don't think I could prove in court, by the weight of the existing scientific evidence, that Agent Orange is the cause of all the medical problems - nervous disorders, cancer and skin problems -reported by Vietnam veterans, or of their children's serious birth defects.
	www.mishalov.com /Zumwalt.html (6082 words)

	Elmo Langley - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Elmo Langley
		Elmo will be missed driving the pace car, but we all know that he is getting his pace car trashed and bashed by Dale Earnhardt up in heaven.
		On September 21, 1996, Elmo died doing what he loved at the Suzuka Circuit in Suzuka, Japan during a exubition woth some of the NASCAR drivers.
		The orginal Elmo Langley article can be editet
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Elmo-Langley.html (178 words)

	Zumwalt, An Intellectual Admiral
		THE FIRST thought that Hashed into my mind on receiving Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt's On Watch* was that it contained the author's platform for his campaign for the U.S. Senate.
		Zumwalt found that his recommendations for the kind of Navy he thought the nation should have were not generally accepted by the administration, especially by Rickover and such Congressmen as William Proxmire and Les Aspin Nor were these three much concerned about maintaining parity with the Russians.
		Zumwalt's watch, of course, occurred during the Watergate mess, when governmental matters were largely handled by either Kissinger or Haig.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/aureview/1977/jan-feb/coletta.html (1057 words)

	zumwalt.htm
		Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., former Chief of Naval Operations, will speak on campus Thursday, Oct. 16, for the President's Lecture Series.
		At age 49, Zumwalt became the youngest four-star admiral ever, serving as commander of the U.S. naval forces in Vietnam from 1968 to 1970.
		A well-respected leader in military consulting, Zumwalt is chairman of the board of the U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation and a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.
	www.odu.edu /ao/instadv/archive/issue5/zumwalt.htm (191 words)

	ZNet Commentary
		Zumwalt noted that the USSR stood atop the 'central part of the West's energy jugular down to the Persian Gulf' (this was a decisive exaggeration).
		Zumwalt's statement came in light of Afro-Asian pressure against such institutions as the US base at Diego Garcia (7.18s and 72.24e) in the Chagos Archipelago, smack dab in the center of the Indian Ocean.
		The Indian Ocean Zone of Peace notion was an affront to Zumwalt, who told the US Congress that 'a permanent presence is mandatory' since the USSR was trying to 'Finlandize' the Afro-Asian littoral.
	www.zmag.org /ZSustainers/ZDaily/2000-01/06prashad.htm (1730 words)

	President Names New Ship Class After Admiral Zumwalt
		Zumwalt was born in San Francisco in 1920 and grew up in Tulare, Calif. He was a cum laude graduate of the United States Naval Academy.
		Zumwalt, who became the youngest man ever to serve as chief of Naval Operations (CNO) in 1970, passed away in Durham, N.C., on Jan. 2, 2000.
		In 1998, Zumwalt was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his service to the United States in war and peace.
	www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ship/docs/000705-dd21-zumwalt.htm (525 words)

	NEW CLASS OF SHIP NAMED AFTER ADMIRAL ZUMWALT
		The DD-21 class is being named after Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., the youngest officer ever to be promoted to the rank of rear admiral, and later, the youngest ever to serve as Chief of Naval Operations.
		Zumwalt, having seen the Navy through modernization and transformation during his years of service, was decorated with three Navy Distinguished Service Medals, two Legions of Merit, and the Bronze star with combat "V".
		Entering the Fleet at the end of this decade, the USS Zumwalt will usher in the Navy's newest class of destroyers and is designed upon post-Cold War requirements and 21st century naval warfare concepts.
	www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ship/docs/000704-ddg21-wh1.htm (563 words)

	Encyclopedia: John Chafee
		Emblematic of this was his decision to elevate Adm. Elmo Zumwalt as Chief of Naval Operations over 33 more senior officers, and his judicious handling of the USS Pueblo situation.
		His tenure as secretary was marked by a willingness to make bold decisions and stand by them.
		He served as Secretary of the Navy until 1972.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/John-Chafee (2003 words)

	apr_zumwalt.htm
		Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., of Arlington, Virginia, is a retired Admiral with the United States Navy and a former member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
		He was Commander of United States Naval Forces in Vietnam from 1968 to 1970, where he served with his son, Naval Officer Elmo Zumwalt III.
		Admiral Zumwalt now serves as a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and is a Director of a number of corporations, including Dallas Semiconductor, Magellan Aerospace and NL Industries.
	www.gulflink.osd.mil /oversight/apr_zumwalt.htm (200 words)

	The Navy Memorial Foundation
		Admiral Zumwalt had also been a visiting professor and guest lecturer at the University of California, Stanford University, the University of Pennsylvania, Vanderbilt University, the University of Nebraska, and Whittier College.
		In 1974, Admiral Zumwalt retired as CNO and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
		In 1976, Admiral Zumwalt ran as the Democratic candidate for the United States Senate in Virginia.
	www.lonesailor.org /zumwalt_tribute.php (572 words)

	US People--Zumwalt, Elmo R., Jr., Admiral, USN.
		Elmo Russell Zumwalt, Jr., was born in San Francisco, California, on 29 November 1920.
		Admiral Elmo R. ("Bud") Zumwalt, Jr., USN (1920-2000) --
		On 1 July 1970, Admiral Zumwalt received his fourth star and assumed the post of Chief of Naval Operations, the youngest officer to hold that position.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/pers-us/uspers-xz/e-zumwt.htm (694 words)

	Vietnam Veterans of America Press Release 4/27/99
		Duggins, expressed the views of veterans throughout the country as he honored the memory of Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., the retired U.S. Navy admiral who commanded U.S. naval forces in the Vietnam War and later became Chief of Naval Operations.
		Admiral Zumwalt began speaking out on the health effects of Agent Orange after his son, former U.S. Navy Lt. Elmo R. Zumwalt III, who had commanded a Navy river boat in Vietnam, was diagnosed with cancer in 1983.
		From 1968-1970, the height of the Vietnam War, Admiral Zumwalt, a World War II and Korean War veteran, commanded what was known as the Brown Water Navy, the American naval river boats that patrolled South Vietnam’s Mekong Delta.
	www.vva.org /PressReleases/2000/pr001-00.htm (390 words)

	ADMIRAL ELMO RUSSELL ZUMWALT JR. - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 08/16/1990
		In 1988, two years before this letter, his son, Elmo Zumwalt III, who had been a Naval officer in the Mekong Delta, died of lymphoma believed to be linked to his exposure to the chemical.
		ELMO R. Twenty years later, the Chief of Naval Operations during the Vietnam War writes: "I regret that we fought the war.
		Admiral Zumwalt lobbied politicians to appropriate the funds necessary to help treat the thousands of Vietnam vets who were suffering from Agent Orange-related diseases.
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/6_2002/military/ADMIRAL_ELMO_RUSSELL_ZUMWALT_JR.htm (277 words)

	Military Racial Policy - "Equal Opportunity"
		On November 10, Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., Chief of Naval Operations, explained the Navy's intensified race relations policies to a number of ranking Washington-area flag officers.
		Excerpts from a November 10, 1972 speech by Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., Chief of Naval Operations, detailing his ideas towards eliminating racism in the military.
		Realizing that the military may one day become all volunteer, he stressed that it was even more important to "return to our oldest and most proven tradition.
	www.aavw.org /served/policy_eo_abstract30.html (621 words)

	The Institute of Environmental and Human Health - Zumwalt National Program for Countermeasures to Biological & Chemical Threats
		This program at Texas Tech was named in honor of the late Admiral Zumwalt for his far-reaching vision and tireless support in the pursuit and accomplishment of establishing a world-class research and development resource for the protection of the American Homeland.
		The Zumwalt Program at TTU is comprised of 12 active research projects, involving more than 60 scientists addressing environmental modeling, textiles, chemical engineering, atmospheric science and modeling, electrical engineering, plant and soil sciences, pharmacology, physiology, and microbiology.
		National Program for Countermeasures to Biological and Chemical Threats (Zumwalt Program) is a multidisciplinary research, education and service consortium with the primary mission of defining, investigating, mitigating, and furthering the understanding and ability of operational military forces to prevent the threats associated with biological and chemical weapons.
	www.tiehh.ttu.edu /researchzumwalt.htm (898 words)

	National Briefs - 1/3/00
		WASHINGTON -- Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., a retired admiral who commanded American naval river patrols in the Vietnam War and later became the Navy's top officer and a champion of equality for women and minorities, died Jan. 2 at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C. Zumwalt, 79, had cancer.
		Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., right, talks with old foes, Vietnamese Lt. Gen.
		As a strategist, Zumwalt believed that the Soviet Union was the major threat to U.S. security and that the United States had no vital interests at stake in Vietnam.
	www.detnews.com /2000/nation/0001/03/01030107.htm (464 words)

	Elmo - Elmo - The Electronic Mail Operator
		Recollections from a Military Career: Conversation with Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.
		Elmo has been exposed to be a Heroin and Cocaine addict before now we expose him to be the Devil's
		After over half a year not doing anything with Elmo I decided to admit that nothing is going to You can download new versions of Elmo from sourceforge.
	multidr.com /mutd/elmo.html (242 words)

	IN HONOR OF ADMIRAL ELMO R. ZUMWALT, JR.
		Admiral Elmo Zumwalt was a great naval leader, a visionary and a courageous challenger of the conventional wisdom.
		Future Admiral Zumwalt, the Wisconsin's navigator when the Korean War broke out, extolled her `versatility, maneuverability, strength, and power.' Unbeknownst to him, this would not be the last time that he would leave his indelible mark on the great state of Wisconsin.
		Admiral Zumwalt led a disciplined, dedicated, and directed life and career as a leader and, sometimes, as an iconoclast.
	www.ussbrewton.com /zumwalt2.htm (568 words)

	CIA, FBI, and Government Documents - Government Periodicals
		Zumwalt Jr., Admiral Elmo R. "Navy Policy: Chief of Naval Operations." Commander's Digest.
		The Navy did select its first black admiral this year, Rear Admiral Samuel L. Gravely Jr.
		We have set ourselves a series of objectives, beginning right down at the recruiting level, both for enlisted personnel and officer candidates, to achieve, as rapidly as possible, an equitable share of minority personnel in all officer grades and in all enlisted ratings.
	www.aavw.org /special_features/govdocs_periodicals_abstract30.html (308 words)

	USS BREWTON FF-1086 : ODDS 'N ENDS
		Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., then Chief of Naval Operations, gave a speech at the launching ceremony for the USS Brewton on Saturday, 24 July 1971 at Avondale Shipyards in Westwego, Louisiana.
		Admiral Zumwalt also knew John Brewton personally, and his speech is a testament to the courage and honor shown by John, and the other young men and women that served in Vietnam.
		Admiral Zumwalt was also the author of a wonderful book entitled On Watch which details his experiences as CNO, and over his 30 year naval career.
	www.ussbrewton.com /misc.htm (677 words)

	Admiral Zumwalt - Malignant Mesothelioma Information
		In an ironic twist, Admiral Zumwalt had campaigned within the Navy to ban the use of environmentally unfriendly chemical agents and became a staunch advocate of new measures to protect the environmental safety of Navy men and woman.
		Admiral Zumwalt was the youngest Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) in history when he took this post in 1970 at the age of 49.
		Zumwalt himself was exposed to asbestos on many different occasions.
	www.allaboutmalignantmesothelioma.com /mesothelioma-stories-zumwalt.htm (460 words)

	The Navy Memorial Foundation
		Admiral Zumwalt had also been a visiting professor and guest lecturer at the University of California, Stanford University, the University of Pennsylvania, Vanderbilt University, the University of Nebraska, and Whittier College.
		In 1974, Admiral Zumwalt retired as CNO and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
		In 1976, Admiral Zumwalt ran as the Democratic candidate for the United States Senate in Virginia.
	www.lonesailor.org /zumwalt_tribute.php (572 words)

	1358. Lt Elmo Zumwalt 3rd. Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
		I realize that what I am saying may imply that my father is responsible for my illness and Russell’s disability.
		I do not doubt for a minute that the saving of American lives was always his first priority.
		Certainly thousands, perhaps even myself, are alive today because of his decision to use Agent Orange.
	aol.bartleby.com /63/58/1358.html (148 words)

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