Director of Peace Corps Robert Sargent Shriver in Washington DC. Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr. is interviewed as he prepares to leave his office. Robert Sargent Shriver Jr. shows slogans on a board. The slogans are 'Nice guys don't win ball games' and 'There is no place on the club for good losers'. He talks about the beginning of the United States Peace Corps (USPC) and its objectives. He talks about a musical instrument. He shows another musical instrument with an autograph of the President of Guinea, Africa. He shows a glass replica of a Buddhist temple (WAT) from the University of Bangkok and a honorary degree, Doctor of Political Science. Excerpt from a speech by the Foreign Minister of Thailand in his tribute to the USPC. He talks about his experiences as the Director of Peace Corps and works of the USPC.
Interior Department building in Washington D.C., United States. Water being sprayed from four pipes over surface of water and lily pads. View of Interior Department building. Small park with yellow flowers in the foreground. Lily pads in water fountain across a street.
Old Soviet Embassy building in Washington D.C., United States. Soviet Flag flutters in wind from flagpole on top of Old Soviet Embassy building,Washington D.C. Trees in foreground. Other unidentified buildings in the foreground. Traffic moves along Massachusetts Avenue. Main entrance of the Soviet Embassy. Autos parked in foreground.
Buildings at Watergate Complex in Southwest Washington D.C., United States. View of modernistic apartment at Watergate Complex in Southwest Washington D.C. Trees in foreground. Traffic moves on street. Steel beams of the building under construction. Shell of the building .
Theodore Roosevelt Bridge over Potomac River in Washington D.C., United States. Flower bed of red and yellow blooms alongside a street. Traffic moves on streets in the background. Auto approaches along Ohio Drive street. View of Theodore Roosevelt Bridge over Potomac River. Traffic moves on the bridge. Yellow flowers in large stone pots in median strip along Pennsylvania Avenue. Many large white flower pots and small trees seen on median strip. Autos approach from overpass. Orange flowers pots seen. Traffic en route from Pennsylvania Avenue, Southeast towards area of Independence Avenue.
Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, speaks. Brief shot of dramatization of Dred Scott in court room. African American students inside a school bus. Closeup shots of white hands holding chains, a brick, and a bat. Thurgood Marshall notes, "What is striking to me is the importance of law in determining the condition of the African American...I submit the history of the African American in this country demonstrates the importance of getting rid of hostile laws and seeking the security of new friendly laws, federal, state, and local."