MAAG (Military Assistance and Advisory Group) Mission in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Cambodian children play in front of their houses. Bicycle traffic on a main street in Cambodia.
Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy visits Cambodia. Mrs Kennedy feeds the royal elephants. She tours the exotic landmarks of Thailand and Cambodia.
United States Vice President Richard Nixon arrives at the Siem Reap international airport in Angkor in Cambodia. A Cambodian girl welcomes the Vice President and his wife by presenting floral greetings to them. He inspects an honor guard by Cambodian soldiers. He along with other officials visits King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia. After the meeting with the king the he visits an ancient reservoir in Angkor.
Industrial scenes in America with a factory with smoke from chimneys, a steel factory in operation, views of the tops of railroad train coal cars filled with coal. Secretary of State George Marshall speaks about providing European countries with material and money (Marshall Plan). He is seen speaking to legislators in Washington DC on November 10, 1947, asking for funds for Austria, Italy, and France "to provide the supplies necessary to permit the people of these countries to continue to eat, to work, and to survive the winter." Truman signs an interim aid bill, S 1774 on December 17, 1947. View of Eiffel Tower in Paris and communists marching and demonstrating in France. Communist demonstrations across Europe. Police monitor communist protestors in Italy, and then disperse a crowd of communists. Winston Churchill arrives for peace conference meeting of the Big Four foreign ministers in London in December 1947. Vyascheslav Molotov attends the conference. George Marshall talks with Molotov. View of the Friendship Train railroad train in the United States approaching on railway tracks during its tour. Also a view of the 1947 special exhibit Freedom Train traveling. Citizens board the Freedom Train at one of its train station stops, to view artifacts and exhibits about American democracy, including a 1823 facsimile of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Exterior view of U.S. Supreme Court building. Statues at the Supreme Court building. The base is inscribed 'The Heritage of the Past is the Seed that Brings Forth the Harvest of the Future'. A group of American boys and girls are seen reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. A larger group of children reciting the pledge and viewing an American flag fluttering in the wind. View of Mount Rushmore National Memorial, and then another view from the top of the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court building looking outward.
MAAG (Military Assistance and Advisory Group) Mission in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Cambodian bullock cart dwellers at a camp in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. A Cambodian family inside a house. Old native woman operates a spinning wheel.
MAAG (Military Assistance and Advisory Group) Mission in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Market and street of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Buses parked at a bus stand. Women sell vegetables in market area. Milk vans with cow statues.