Earthquake in Peru, June, 1970. View from aircraft flying low over a beach. A U.S. Air Force Military Airlift Command C-141 aircraft taxiing to park at an airfield, after landing. UH-1 helicopters being offloaded from the aircraft. A column of porters, carrying blue bags of relief supplies on their heads, proceed toward a helicopter. Helicopter taking off and dropping the supplies to people below. View of helicopter with its shadow below where a man is seen walking through a flooded field. Scene shifts to injured person being carried from helicopter on a stretcher. Scenes of destruction. Houses flattened and rubble in streets of Peruvian village.
U.S. First Lady Patricia Nixon as a public figure and as a companion of President Richard Nixon. Civilians gather and watch as she arrives in a town during her visit to Latin America. She shakes hands and talks with people. Patricia Nixon takes a small child on her lap in the White House. She meets and talks to elderly people at a ceremony. She writes to, sends relief and ration for people of Peru struck by earthquake. She herself visits the place and climbs among the rubble. Patricia visits the injured people in a hospital.