United States Military personnel walk into a room in the Pentagon. Sign over a door reads 'Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff'. Airman works at draft table. Military personnel operating business machines and various communications equipment in the Pentagon. Sign over entrance at Headquarters USAF Communications Center and then also entrance of the Army Communications Center in the Pentagon. Military personnel talking, standing at a counter. Telephone operators and communication operators at work with large business machines. Hat rack with hats belonging to officers of various Nations. Joint Chiefs of staffs General Ridgway, Army; General Twining, Air force; Chairman Admiral Radford, Navy; General Cates converse with each other. Servicemen entering the Pentagon from the Potomac River entrance side.
President Dwight D Eisenhower is presented with 39 pound "Tom" turkey for Thanksgiving meal at White House table, Washington DC. Tom the turkey hails from Nebraska. President strokes the live turkey and then holds a basket of cranberries in hand.
Photographers and journalists standing around a walk at the White House, Washington, DC. President Eisenhower accompanies Prime Minister Churchill as he leaves the White House and slowly walks to his waiting car parked on the driveway. Many photographers and journalists are present. People standing around the walk gather close to them. The American flag flies over the White House.
Photographers line up to take pictures of President and Mrs.Eisenhower, who emerge from the White House and sit on a bench in the garden, for a formal portrait. Mrs. Eisenhower wears a light summer dress with a flower corsage, and carries a folded fan. The President wears a light suit, striped tie and shirt with french cuffs.They smile and laugh. They stand to pose for photographs. They again sit back on the bench. Mrs. Eisenhower opens her fan and waves it slightly while sitting on the bench. The Eisenhowers walk back to the White House.
President Eisenhower and his cabinet meet in the White House. The President is seated with Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, to his right, and Secretary of Defense, Charles E. Wilson, to his left. Across the table sits Vice President Richard Nixon. Secretary of Commerce, Henry Cabot Lodge can be seen at the end of the table.
U.S. Senate Subcommittee investigating Army Signal Corps Subversion and Espionage at Fort Monmouth. Committee Chairman, Senator Joseph McCarthy and Committee Chief Counsel question witness Joseph Levitsky about his relationship to Julius Rosenberg. In the course of his testimony, the witness invokes the 5th Amendment to avoid answering. Seeking a tie to Communism, McCarthy reads text of a Communist party pledge and asks if Levitsky ever signed such a pledge.