On Watch: A Memoir

This is the unprecedented inside story of high policy and politics in the Nixon adminstration by Admiral Elmo r. Zumwalt, Jr. Appointed Chief of Naval Operations in 1970, the youngest ever. He transformed the Navy in his four years as CNO, setting its course for a generation. His famous "Z-grams" upset hallowed Navy tradition. Admiral Zumwalt describes how he managed the Navy under the leadership of canny Melvin Laird and the intellectural James Schlesinger, how he came to terms with Admiral Hyman Rickover, and how he got his programs through Congress