Word: elmo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ADMIRAL Elmo ("Bud") Zumwalt, who appears on this week's cover, became a figure of special interest to TIME correspondents when he commanded U.S. naval forces in South Viet Nam. At a dinner in 1968, Zumwalt remarked casually that his wife was due in town next day. Recalls Correspondent John Wilhelm, who helped report this week's cover story: "We were impending since MACV had just sounded the alarm of an impending enemy offensive Zumwalt, however, had seen Navy intelligence to the contrary, but the weekend passed quietly. "Thereafter," says Wilhelm, "the bureau always checked out rumors...
...There was its highest officer, his bushy eyebrows knit in concentration, his head tilted to catch each word, as some 1,000 sailors at the San Diego Naval Station met with him to sound off their gripes -some general, some highly personal -about military life. Quietly and sympathetically, Admiral Elmo ("Bud") Zumwalt responded to each. Clarence Burris, a black cook whose wife had died of cancer and whose three daughters now need his presence, pleaded for a shore assignment, since his ship was about to sail. Zumwalt immediately ordered aides to arrange a change of duty. As he stepped from...
Youngest Everything. Moorer's successor as C.N.O., Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, is a brilliant ship-of-the-line officer who is as comfortable discussing cost efficiency with Pentagon experts as he is on the bridge of a destroyer. Zumwalt is an intellectual who respects, but refuses to be bound by, traditions. Described by a fellow officer as the Navy's "youngest everything," he was the service's youngest peacetime rear admiral at 44, and now is its youngest C.N.O. at 49. Zumwalt spent 20 months in Viet Nam, where he was responsible for the success of the Navy...