Former Vice President Nichard Nixon tours Israel on a fact-finding tour. Nixon arrives and greets Defense Minister of Israel Moshe Dayan in Tel Aviv. The two leaders with their aides. The meeting in progress. The press takes photographs and records the event.
Officers walk with prisoners during the exchange of prisoners at Jordan-Israel border, several weeks after the Arab-Israeli Six Day War. Two soldiers take an injured prisoner. Prisoners cross Allenby Bridge during the exchange program. Two israeli pilots and 424 Jordanian troops go to their respective homelands in a swap supervised by the Red Cross.
Men looking at the wreckage of a bombed out building during the Arab-Israeli war. Israeli Defense Forces soldiers (IDF) with wreckage of Egyptian plane. Views of street. Unexploded bomb found. Egyptian insignia on wreckage of plane. Troops digging trenches. Military plane overhead. Soldiers with wreckage of plane. View of a captured tank. Israeli soldiers on a lookout tower. A damaged building. Wrecked military equipment. Military truck with Israeli 'Star of David' and medical corps insignia. Plane overhead. Body is carried out from a building as soldiers try to put out the fire. Israeli soldier near Egyptian plane on ground. Men keeping watch in a high watch tower.
This film is in two parts: The Cedars of Lebanon and The history of Israel. The first part of the film is Lebanon Mountains and buildings. Cedar trees in a gorge of Kadisha Valley. Stones kept in front of a 900 year old tree and is looked after by a Maronite priest. A Maronite chapel. People come out of the chapel. Trees inscribed with the names of famous men who visited them. Second Part of film is in Israel: The Onrus River. A water wheel which irrigates the fields. The stones in a temple. Men dig earth to take out stones. The comparison of an area with a model of the Solomon's Temple. The north east corner of the Solomon's model. The south east corner of the area. The model of the Solomon's Temple. A wall under the temple. An aerial view of the city. The back view of the Solomon's Temple. An animated map shows the division of the temple between Israel and Judea after the death of Solomon.
Large crowd gathers in front of City Hall in New York City, to celebrate the founding of the State of Israel. People seated in park area and standing behind police barricades. Flag of Israel flies from City Hall. Crowd stands and applauds for Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. New York City mounted police in parade along 5th Avenue. The horses legs are taped in white. They are followed in parade by New York City patrolmen on foot. Honor guard in parade carry flags of United States, Israel, and City of New York and a flag with cluster of stars on dark field in canton, with three dark stripes and two white stripes in the field.
Self-portrait of Richard Nixon aired during his 1968 presidential run against Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace in the United States. An interviewer asks Richard Nixon what did he think when he made a decision to run for the President of the United States in 1968. A picture showing Richard Nixon and his wife Pat Nixon. The interviewer asks if he felt any strain on the family. Nixon says he thought of his family first. A picture showing his wife Pat Nixon and daughters Julie Nixon and Tricia Nixon. Nixon calls this presidency more of a challenge in terms of America being involved in the Vietnam War and in the Cold War with the Soviet Union. A photograph shows Richard Nixon with his wife Pat Nixon, daughters Julie and Tricia and Julie's husband David Eisenhower at a beach. He says that present time is different from World Wars I and II because now America is a great power and there should be a best possible leader to lead the nation. Nixon states that America needs a kind of leadership that would obtain peace and avoid war and surrender. A picture of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Nixon.