Playboy Interview: Admiral Elmo Zumwalt
June, 1974
In its 198-year history, the United States Navy has had its share of colorful heroes. Never, however, has it had a head man as controversial as its present Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Elmo Russell Zumwalt, Jr., an officer whose retirement this month at the end of his four-year term as C.N.O. will be greeted with decidedly mixed reactions in and out of the Service. "There's a good deal of indecision," admits Zumwalt, "as to whether I'm a drooling-fang militarist or a bleedin...
