U.S. Chief Signal Officer Major General Spencer B. Akin makes a presentation in Washington D.C., United States. Major Akin presents a plaque to Dr. Westmore of the Smithsonian Museum as another U.S. officer looks on. Dr. Westmore holds the award and talks to General Akin.
Washington Officials give entertainer Bob Hope a sendoff in Washington D.C. airport. Senate Majority Leader, Alben Barkley, arrives by car and greets Bob Hope's wife, Delores, with a kiss. Bob Hope clowns around with Senator Barkley, ostensibly drinking liquor from a hollow walking stick. Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson, of Texas is seen in background and later up close. The Bob Hope party boards a U.S. Air Force C-121 (Constellation) airplane. Senator Barkley holds up an official (Congressional) document of some kind.The aircraft engines start and it taxis out.
President Lyndon B. Johnson's voting rights address to Congress in Washington D.C., United States. Very brief segment showing civil rights march and demonstration on a city street with demonstrators carrying placards. President Johnson speaks about progress made through democratic process in the nation. He further speaks about pressures on President of United States. He talks about guaranteeing the right to vote for African Americans. President Johnson describes the voting rights act and how it will work. Crowd applauds. President Johnson shakes hands with speakers and talks to them. President Johnson walks through a crowd.
Aviator Charles Lindbergh arrives in Washington D.C., United States after his successful non stop trans Atlantic flight. Charles Lindbergh with mother in a car moving through crowd of newsmen and photographers. Army troops try to keep order as the car proceeds.
Carnegie institution of Washington D.C. and American Physics Institute in New York. Exteriors of Carnegie institution of Washington Headquarters. People arrive and leave the headquarters. Car arrives at the entrance of the building. Interiors of American Physics Institute at 57 East 55th Street. Reenactment shows Dr. Vannevar Bush working at his desk. He signs a few documents.
U.S. Ambassador to UK Joseph Kennedy records a speech in Washington D.C., United States during World War II. He espresses concern about the "habit of smearing an opponent" because one disagrees with what he stands for. He asks, how can we maintain national unity when the motives of patriotic men are indiscriminately assailed. He says that if intolerance of contrary opinions flourishes, at this point of time, then future of theUnited States is dark.
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