On Watch: A Memoir [SIGNED FIRST EDITION]

Zumwalt, Jr., Elmo R.

Verlag: Admiral Zumwalt & Consultants, Inc., Arlington, Virginia, 1976

Beschreibung

Fine unread condition blue cloth boards with dark blue spine lettering contained in a very good condition color photographic dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote by Horace; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chronology; Appendix A: Department of the Navy -- Washington Headquarters Organization; Appendix B: Organizational Chart of the National Security Council; Appendix C: Comparison of U.S. and USSR Naval Capabilities etc.; Appendix D: Z-grams; Appendix E: U.S. Navy First-Term Reenlistment Rates; Maps; Glossary; and Index. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates. A repaired closed 1 inch tear at the upper rear jacket near the spine and light rubbing at upper and lower jacket edges and extremities (see photographs). All pages are in fine condition and the spine/binding is in exceedingly square and tight unread condition (see photographs). Signed and inscribed by the author with black pen on the blank first free front endpaper. True first edition, first printing, printed privately by the author (Admiral Zumwalt & Consultants, Inc.). "28 November, 1970 Notes on a conversation with Henry Kissinger: "I gave him run-down on the President's remarks to me. K. does not agree with the President that American people can be turned around. He states strongly that the President misjudges the people. K. feels that U.S. has passed its historic high point like so many earlier civilizations. He says. that the American people have only themselves to blame because they lack stamina to stay the course against the Russians who are 'Sparta to our Athens.' ". -- from the rear outer jacket. "This is the unprecedented inside story of high policy and politics in the Nixon administration, told by a man destined to become a major American statesman. Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., was appointed Chief of Naval Operations in 1970, the youngest ever. In four short years he transformed the Navy, setting its course for a generation. His famous Z-grams upset hallowed prejudice by integrating the Navy, upgrading the status of its women, and eliminating the Navy's demeaning "Mickey Mouse" regulations of dress, behavior, and family life. Simultaneously Admiral Zumwalt reshaped the physical Navy with an imaginative mix of low and high cost ships appropriate to the U.S. Navy's strategic role for the rest of this century. These dramatic changes were expressions of Admiral Zumwalt's farsighted and coherent strategy founded on clearly expressed principles: The United States cannot police the world; the United States does have interests around the world; the Soviets and other powers will threaten those interests when they can; the U.S. Navy is the best consistent and flexible defense for those interests; to carry out this critical mission the U.S. Navy must therefore be equuipped to intelligent but not grandiose purpose, and must have a high morale. Admiral Zumwalt describes how he managed the Navy in its stormy crisis of integration (he was nearly fired by President Nixon), how he operated in the Pentagon under such different leaders as the canny Melvin Laird and the intellectual James Schlesinger, how he came to prickly terms with Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, how he campaigned to get his programs through the Congress, and how he worked (or couldn't) with such as Henry Kissinger and Al Haig at the White House. He tells the inside story of the great crises -- the 1970 Jordan crisis, the 1972 Pakistan war, the 1972 Christmas bombing of Vietnam, the 1973 Middle East war, and the ongoing SALT negotiation. Zumwalt found himself increasingly disenchanted with the Nixon administration, and especially the secretive policies and practices of Henry Kissinger. Zumwalt takes the story to the final crisis of Watergate, when he resolved to retire and speak out. Admiral Zumwalt's extraordinary and thoroughly documented story vividly illuminates the grotesque effects of paranoid government. " - from the jacket flaps. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 006762

Bibliografische Details

Titel: On Watch: A Memoir [SIGNED FIRST EDITION]

Verlag: Admiral Zumwalt & Consultants, Inc., Arlington, Virginia

Erscheinungsdatum: 1976

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good

Signiert: Signed by Author(s)

Auflage: 1st Edition