Elmo Zumwalt (1920–2000)
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(eng) The book My Father My Son was not technically written by Elmo Zumwalt, though he contributed to the narrative. John Pekkanen wrote much of it, including quoted passages from Elmo Zumwalt, his son Elmo Zumwalt III, and other family members and friends.
Bildnachweis: Portrait photograph by PHC W. Mason (1970), Naval Historical Center
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- Zumwalt, Elmo Russell, Jr.
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- 1920-11-29
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- 2000-01-02
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- Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA, USA
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- USA
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- San Francisco, California, USA
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- Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- naval officer
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- United States Navy
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- Presidential Medal of Freedom (1998)
Navy Distinguished Service Medal
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- The book My Father My Son was not technically written by Elmo Zumwalt, though he contributed to the narrative. John Pekkanen wrote much of it, including quoted passages from Elmo Zumwalt, his son Elmo Zumwalt III, and other family members and friends.
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The two most fascinating components of this memoir I have left for last to describe. The first is Zumwalt's insistence and persistence efforts to drag the Navy into the modern day in terms of its treatment of minorities and women. Truman had ordered full integration of American armed forces, but the Navy, foremost among the service branches, had remained a bastion of segregation and prejudice. Zumwalt took forceful steps to reverse those conditions, and his descriptions of how he went about that and the resistance he faced make quite interesting reading. The second is Zumwalt's description of what conditions were like within the Nixon Administration as the president and Kissinger became ever more focused on saving Nixon's presidency and denying access to Nixon's "enemies" in the face of the growing Watergate scandal. In particular, Zumwalt describes how he had begun as an admirer of Kissinger, taken in by Kissinger's personal charm and charisma. Gradually, he begins to see Kissinger as a rather bizarre, paranoid figure whose ego-driven policies and refusal to brook any dissenting opinions was doing great harm to the country.
There is a lot to wade through in this memoir, but the writing is clear and accessible, which helps a lot. In a way, Zumwalt's book serves best as a fascinating time capsule to what it was like being inside the U.S. military hierarchy looking out (and within) during a fascinating and pivotal time in our history.… (mehr)