General Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, makes his first inspection of Allied forces in West Germany. General Dwight D Eisenhower waves, seated inside an army jeep. He inspects the British Army of the Rhine. He observes amphibious maneuvers of French forces and Allied infantry, artillery and tank units. General Eisenhower inspects a U.S. F-84E jet fighter, accompanied by his Air Deputy, General Lauris Norstad. A large formation of F-84 jet aircraft flies overhead.
U.S. President Dwight D Eisenhower at the White House in Washington DC. President Eisenhower shakes hands with Clare Booth Luce, U.S. Ambassador to Italy. He looks at a Thanksgiving turkey presented to the White House for pardoning. A group of photographers takes pictures. The President strokes the turkey. View of the White House North elevation, with dry trees in foreground. Clare Booth Luce leaving the White House. She speaks to the media.
President Franklin D Roosevelt's birthday celebrations in Washington DC. Bakers decorate a huge birthday cake. 'Happy Birthday to our President' written on the cake. President Roosevelt looks at the cake. William Green presents a 350lb cake as a gift from the Bakery and Confectionery Worker's Union.
Great Depression scenes and recovery efforts in the United States. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated as President on March 4, 1933. Scenes of Roosevelt and outgoing President Herbert Hoover leaving the White House together in a top-down convertible limousine before the ceremony. Roosevelt at the U.S. Capitol building during the inauguration ceremony as President of the United States. Roosevelt delivering the famous line in his speech, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Jobless American men wait in unemployment relief lines to get work or jobs. Men in a bread line. Unemployed man with a large sign "Will take any job." Scenes of families migrating in the United States, with vehicles filled with belongings. Families and children suffering poverty and in makeshift camps and tenement dwellings during migration (usually migration west). Troops and bands march with American flags on Constitution Avenue during the Roosevelt Inauguration parade. Exterior view of U.S. Capitol Building framed by tree limbs. Men in an office empty heavy mailbags filled with letters (presumably to congress and senate). Government officials at a long table working on emergency banking laws in March of 1933. Scene of people flooding into a bank and making a run on the bank to retrieve deposits. President Roosevelt signs Emergency Banking Act in his office on March 9, 1933. View of White House lawn and White House. The CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) is created to put unemployed young men to work on various conservation projects. CCC boys and men working on planting trees with pick axes and mattocks. Men and women in line to sign up for Emergency Work Relief programs. Officials write down the information for each worker as they are put to work in a variety of projects. Women and men, including white and African American men are seen getting assigned to work projects. A sign "USA Work Program WPA" advertising a suspension bridge work project of the Works Progress Administration in Los Angeles, California. People build roads, bridges and post offices. Cable fed out of a large spool as construction of a suspension bridge is shown. People work in factories. Four steam railroad locomotives preparing to run on parallel tracks. Close up views of railroad train locomotive wheels as they start moving and the train on tracks near factories. Various factory scenes including smokestacks, groups of workers entering factory for work shift and two different closeup views of a steam whistle blowing to mark the start or end of a work shift. A coal mining operation. Automated tools dig coal in shaft. Two coal miners take a break and eat. Crane hoists material at mine. A steel factory and hot molten steel pouring from a ladle.
Aftermaths of Washington Riots in Washington D.C, triggered by assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Damaged shops on a street. Board on a shop reads 'Super Music City', 'Furniture Company', Surplus Outlet'. Civilians pick things from debris on a street.
Aftermaths of Washington Riots in Washington D.C (after death of civil rights leader Martin Luther King). African American people walk on a street. Fire brigade truck parked outside a burning building. United Stats 3rd Infantry soldiers patrol on street with rifles in hand. U.S. soldier speaks to a woman. Civilians walk on streets.
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