U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the 1940 presidential campaign, speaking in Philadelphia, United States. The President stands at the podium addressing the crowd. The President vigorously defends his administration against what he characterizes as false charges by political opponents.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt explains the Peacetime Selective Service Lottery to the nation from a microphone in the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium at 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, Washington, DC, where members of the government gather to witness the first drawing of numbers under the Selective Service Act 1940.
India's Prime Minister Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru being welcomed by U.S. President Harry S. Truman in Washington DC. U.S. Secretary of Defense Johnson confers with President Harry S. Truman, Secretary of States Dean Acheson and other men. PM Nehru gets off from an air plane. Photographers take photographs of Nehru and other dignitaries. President Truman on speaker stand with mikes as he welcomes Prime Minister Nehru and invites him to make his speech. Nehru makes a speech and talks about east and west coming together. He opes that together they will work for betterment of humanity. Truman and Nehru shakes hands, pose and go off the platform.
San Francisco Security conference of representatives of four powers meets in Washington DC prior to the United Nations San Francisco Parley. United States Secretary of States Edward R. Stettinius Jr. meets British ambassador to U.S. Edward Wood (Lord Halifax), Russian ambassador to U.S. Andrei Gromyko, and Chinese ambassador to U.S., Dr. Wei Tao-ming. Assistant Secretary Archibald MacLeish speaks on a microphone. Chinese ambassador speaks. Assistant Secretary of State, Archibald MacLeish, poses and talks on a microphone.
The activities and policies of the National Socialist Party in Germany. Newspaper headlines about Ludendorff (General Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff ) and Hitler being captured after their attempted putsch . Nazi Sturmabteilung (SA) stormtroopers on street. Adolf Hitler fills out and signs a registration form. A flag of the Nazi party. Stormtroopers march on the street. Joseph Goebbels speaks on a phone. Nazi party member steps from a car. People on either side wave to a party member and he waves back. A tram in the background.
United States Secretary of Navy Swanson mourned in impressive rites. Guards stand in front of a casket draped in American flag as it carries Claude A. Swanson. Casket bearers carry casket down the steps of Capitol building. Guards line up the steps of Capitol. Casket is placed on horse-drawn carriage. Members of the immediate family descend down the steps of the Capitol.
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