Senator Vandenberg talks about the U.S. relations with Soviet Russia. Demanding that this nation be firm in its dealings with foreign powers, he says our foreign policy must be one which 'says what it means and means what it says'.
The Cold War from perspective of U.S. military. Industry in the United States. Exterior of a factory shows stacks belching smoke. Scenes of heavy manufacturing.Steel furnace; flywheel; moving parts; machinists using drill press and lathe. Milling machine in operation. Steel fabrication; ingots; forging operations;gear cutting. Steel Bridge construction. Man rides girders suspended by cables. Concrete building construction. Electric transmission lines and facilities. Capitol building in Washington DC. The Kremlin in Soviet Union and Soviet military parade in Red Square. U.S. C-130 aircraft takes off. Helicopters fly in formation. Artillery is fired. Paratroops drop from C-130 aircraft in formation. Aircraft catapulted from carrier's deck. Rockets launched from ships. Polaris missile fired from submarine breaks surface of ocean. B-52 taking off. Formation of F-105s in flight. F-102s in flight. Troops in amphibious assault on beach. Helicopters in formation. Various missiles launched. U.S. surveyors working in an Asian country. President Lyndon B Johnson speaks at mike.
The Cold War. President Lyndon B Johnson addresses session of Congress. Maps of Communist countries. Maps of America's allies. Map of Africa. Representative of a nation of Africa addresses the United Nations Assembly. Delegates from Togo watch the speech. Scenes of poverty in area with simple shack homes in Africa. African government officials attend a conference as they work to found new African nations. Map of Cuba. Fidel Castro speaks at microphone. Crowd listens. Another view of Castro giving an address and speaking animatedly. Cameramen record event. Views of ordinary people in Third World countries working in tasks mostly agriculture related. Street scenes in U.S. cities with busy streets with cars and buses, and many pedestrians heading to shops and offices. Wide view of Great Plains in midwest U.S. People walking to church in small town. Aerial view of Queens, Manhattan and East River, in New York City. "New America" shows aerial view of suburbs located in outskirts of city. Street level scene in a vintage early 1960s suburban neighborhood. Boy and girl children in the front yard outside a house in the suburbs with a dog. A U.S. Department of Commerce display clock showing population growth. Doctors in hospital delivering babies. Newborn baby infants and young children seen playing and eating. Close up views of faces of American children, smiling.
Montage of Americana spanning parts of the 1950s and 1960s. Science and technology in the United States. Scientists work in laboratories and conduct various experiments. Scientists look into microscopes and treat patients with scientific medical equipment. People relax at a beach and amusement park. People watch a baseball game. Spectators from behind the fences watch bucking horses in a rodeo. Playing golf. Ten pin bowling. Motorboats race in water. Water skiing. View at a football game, horse race, basketball game, and Joe Louis boxing. Ice skating with sails. Swimming pool and high dive. 1940s fashion scenes: Juke box; Pegged pants; bobby sox;saddle shoes and dancing to an orchestra. People Square dancing, fishing, throwing horse shoes, playing shuffle board and lunching in backyard. Americans enjoying parks with lakes, swimmers, boaters and lots of park benches, where they sit and relax. Contrasting scenes of poverty in America: poor tenement and slum housing; bread line food relief for the poor; criminals being apprehended by police in paddy wagons; African American and some white American people demonstrate by the reflecting pool near Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, DC, during the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Demonstrators holding signs protesting racism, low wages, and poor housing; and advocating civil rights. Travel by Americans: People boarding an Air France airplane, airport scenes and people boarding a Pan Am (Pan American) passenger jet airplane. Ground level shot between art deco sleek passenger railroad trains in motion. People unload luggage from parked passenger bus. Aerial views of American highways with traffic and lots of mostly 1950s era cars and trucks. View of RV trailer park or camping area. Scene from moving car of undeveloped land and then of city at night with many neon signs for hotels, motels, food, and businesses. Vintage American suburban or small town scenes of families in front of houses, tending their neighborhood yards,cutting their lawns, and raking leaves on yards of homes.
Church going in the U.S. People enter various churches. President Lyndon B Johnson, Nelson Rockefeller,Richard Nixon and Barry Goldwater speaking. The funeral of slain President John F. Kennedy, shows flag-draped casket on carriage and Kennedy family members walking behind it. Mourners at Arlington Cemetery, as military men from all services hold flag over bier. Washington Monument in Washington DC, and as seen across the Reflecting Pool, from step of the Lincoln Memorial. The Jefferson Memorial and his Statue, inside. The Lincoln Memorial and Statue of Lincoln, inside. The Capitol Building. Shoreline and mountains in the background as seen from water. Yosemite National Park. Scenic views of American landscape with rolling fields, and hills and mountains.Snow covered mountains. Snow covered evergreen forests. Choir sings 'America the Beautiful'
Reenactments and pictures of significant aspects of American history: First Congress in session, Signing of Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776 during American Revolution. Wide landscape views of Western United States including sandstone monuments in Western United States. Native American Indian tribesmen dance and play music. Drawing of river with a Native American Indian paddling canoe and men at dock and houses in a village. Frontier settler family outside their log cabin, in snow. A commercial waterfront with established buildings, sailing vessels, and people engaged in conversation and work. Illustrations of people in ordinary pursuits outdoors, and of an early town. Moving images of wagon trains and covered wagons traversing the Western Plains of the United States. A statue of pioneer man and woman.
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