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==Miscellaneous== {{trivia|date=July 2022}} * Zumwalt's picture hangs in the [[War Remnants Museum (Ho Chi Minh City)|War Remnants Museum]] in Ho Chi Minh City, near pictures of [[John Kerry]], [[Robert McNamara]], [[Warren Christopher]], and other American dignitaries, in commemoration of a visit he made after normalization of [[United States–Vietnam relations|relation]]s between Vietnam and the United States.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://daily.nysun.com/Repository/getmailfiles.asp?Style%3DOliveXLib%3AArticleToMail%26Type%3Dtext%2Fhtml%26Path%3DNYS%2F2004%2F08%2F16%26ID%3DAr00100 |title=Kerry'S Photo Raises Eyebrows in Museum in Ho Chi Minh City |access-date=February 9, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060516203647/http://daily.nysun.com/Repository/getmailfiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib%3AArticleToMail&Type=text%2Fhtml&Path=NYS%2F2004%2F08%2F16&ID=Ar00100 |archive-date=May 16, 2006 }}</ref> * In his first book, ''On Watch'', Zumwalt quoted at length an interview with Admiral Hyman Rickover, regarded as the [[Father of the Nuclear Navy]] and who interviewed all officers with responsibilities involving nuclear propulsion. Rickover and Zumwalt had a combative conversation, with Zumwalt referring to it as a humbling experience. * Zumwalt was a member of [[Sigma Phi Epsilon]] fraternity. <ref>{{Cite web |title=Prominent Alumni |url=https://sigep.org/about/history-and-facts/prominent-alumni/ |access-date=17 June 2024 |website=SigEp}}</ref> He was initiated in 1980 as a Renaissance brother, who "provides for men who live up to the ideals of Sigma Phi Epsilon to be part of the Fraternity even though they may not have had the opportunity during their college years." He was initiated by the Connecticut chapter.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Renaissance of Brotherhood Program |url=https://sigep.org/resources/chapter-officers/vice-president-of-recruitment/renaissance-of-brotherhood-program/ |access-date=17 June 2024 |website=SigEp}}</ref> * In 1994 the U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation awarded Zumwalt its Lone Sailor Award for his distinguished naval career. * In 1972, Zumwalt became an honorary member of the [[Royal Swedish Society of Naval Sciences]]<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.koms.se/content/uploads/2013/06/TiS-nr-4-1996.pdf |journal=Tidskrift i sjöväsendet |title=Matrikel 1996 för Kungl. Örlogsmannasällskapet |year=1996 |number=4 |location=Carlskrona |language=sv |id={{LIBRIS|8258455}} |page=313}}</ref>
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