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Reagan was paraphrasing quotes from a book, On Watch, by Retired Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., former Navy chief, which will be published in June. Zumwalt is running on the Democratic ticket for U.S. Senator in Virginia, and his platform consists largely of attacks on Kissinger. The admiral says that Kissinger made the statement to him on a train going to the 1970 Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia and again during a talk in 1972. Kissinger declared through an aide that the statement was "pure invention and totally irresponsible." The Secretary has often spoken pessimistically in private about...
...politicians are willing to take on Virginia's Senator Harry Flood Byrd Jr. Byrd is running as an independent, no Republican is challenging him, and several Democrats have dropped out. That leaves the field open to Admiral Elmo Russell Zumwalt Jr. (ret.), former Chief of Naval Operations, who will announce his candidacy on the Democratic ticket in a few weeks...
...race will pit a formidable family dynasty against a brilliant and out spoken military man. Zumwalt, 55, was the youngest CNO ever, helped humanize the service and raised its re-enlistment rate from...
...Zumwalt has been making news not by lambasting Byrd but by launching a flanking attack on a personal target-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. He accuses Kissinger of "lying in his teeth" when the Secretary soft-pedaled violations of nuclear arms agreements by the U.S.S.R., of running "a secret, Metternichian policy that seeks to mislead, not to lead, and of "creating peace in our time by pushing disaster into our children's future." The Admiral's assault seems an odd political tactic since Byrd, also a supporter of the Pentagon, has not taken any stand for or against...
Kissinger is furious at Zumwalt's charges, which are seconded by Senator Henry Jackson, the Secretary's longtime adversary. Kissinger believes that his critics are in effect accusing him of knowingly endangering the security of the U.S. At his press conference, Kissinger angrily protested that the charge against him of hiding Russian cheating on SALT "may tempt the very non-compliance which it claims to seek to avoid, because it may create the impression that the U.S. Government would make a serious agreement on a matter affecting the survival of the U.S. and that its senior officials would...