Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.
NUMBER:
1357
AUTHOR:
Lt Elmo Zumwalt 3rd
QUOTATION:
I am a lawyer and I don’t think I could prove in court … that Agent Orange is the cause of all the medical problems … reported by Vietnam veterans, or of their children’s serious birth defects. But I am convinced that it is.
ATTRIBUTION:
On his cancer and his son’s learning disability, from My Father, My Son, with Adm Elmo Zumwalt Jr, Macmillan 86, excerpted in NY Times 24 Aug 86
