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