A film about the United States President Richard Nixon's visit to Asia and Europe. President Nixon signs agreements with the Soviet Union during the Moscow Summit at the Kremlin. President Nixon and Soviet Premier Alexey Kosygin sign the ‘Agreement Concerning Cooperation in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space for Peaceful Purposes’ and exchange files as officials clap. United States Secretary of the Navy John Warner and Soviet Navy Commander-in-Chief Fleet Admiral of the Soviet Union Sergey Gorshkov sign the U.S.–Soviet Incidents at Sea agreement. Various American and Soviet officials sign agreements for cooperation in fields of environmental protection, science and technology, medicine, space, and use of seas. Nixon talks to officials.
A film about the United States President Richard Nixon's visit to Asia and Europe. View of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow. President Nixon's wife Pat Nixon visits Moscow’s Red Square. She meets various people in Moscow. Pat Nixon watches the Moscow Circus. A bear riding a scooter. Bear poses with a man. A man balances two girls on his head as he walks along a high wire tightrope. A woman performs with horses. Audience applauding.
A film about the United States President Richard Nixon's visit to Asia and Europe. Exteriors of the Moscow State University (Ulitsa Kolmogorova, 1, Moscow, Russia, 119991). President Nixon's wife Pat Nixon visits Moscow State University. She meets students at the university. First Lady Pat Nixon with Mrs. Viktoria Brezhneva, wife of General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, and Mrs. Lydia Gromyko watch a performance by students at the Bolshoi Theater School. First Lady Nixon speaks to young girls. Girl presents a doll to First Lady Pat Nixon. President Nixon and the First Lady watch a Bolshevik ballet performance of Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Artists perform ballet.
Side entrance to the White House, in Washington, DC. Flag on roof at half mast. Members of the White House press corps gather and President Richard M Nixon addresses them regarding the death of J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI. He speaks about Hoover's greatness and gives a tribute to him. He leaves the podium. Scenes reflecting activities of the FBI during Hoover's time in office are shown, including: lowering of flag to half mast at Department of Justice building; construction of the F.B.I. building; J. Edgar Hoover's house, with doormats carrying initials "JEH."; clips of FBI agents apprehending gangsters; FBI agents firing pistols at a training range, and Hoover at work in the Bureau.
View of the White House. President Lyndon Johnson accompanied by FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover, who speaks into microphone, thanking the President for the action he had taken, on Hoover's behalf. (Johnson waived the mandatory retirement age of 70, to allow Hoover to continue as Director of the FBI.) Visitor looking at displays in the FBI headquarters, in Washington, DC, including the "Ten Most Wanted." Hoover testifying before the Senate Committee investigating Crime, chaired by Senator Estes Kefauver. View of J Edgar Hoover entering an office room and giving a speech in an FBI office late in his career.
History of the SR-71 development from conferences, through assembly, to operational flights of the aircraft, United States. SR-71 taxis and takes off. Other airplane parked on the runway. Exterior of the Pentagon. Men enter advanced system program office to discuss about the SR-71. Colonel R E Sprinkel presides over contractor's conference. The project is the Lockheed Defense Development Project. Lockheed employees enter 'Skunk Works'. SR-71 in flight. Designers and airframe specialists at work. Crated SR-71 on tractor-trailer leaves Lockheed Plant, en-route and arrives at Edwards Air Force Base. Officers and Lockheed officials look at SR-71.