President Dwight D Eisenhower at a press conference in Washington DC, United States. President Eisenhower talks about the economy of United States, and answers reporters' budget related questions. Reporters take notes.
President Dwight D Eisenhower at a press conference in Washington DC, United States. The President answers reporters' budget related questions. He also talks about the economy and taxes of United States. Subjects include budget for foreign aid and how that pairs with diplomacy and teaching respect for individual liberty and human rights. He also talked about desiring tax cuts for the next budget year, but that this desire had to be balanced against the costs involved in national security and programs at home such as disaster relief and other federal responsibilities.
An instructor at the FBI Academy, Quantico, Virginia, United States teaches traffic control to students using model intersection.
An Instructor at FBI Academy Quantico, Virginia, United States demonstrates the Remington Model 81 autoloading rifle chambered in 30 Remington caliber. Instructor displays rifle's long recoil action using a large scale wooden model. The demonstration is repeated three times, each successively closer to the instructor and wooden model. Finally, several firearms are displayed, without comment, on a table. They include: Thompson submachine gun, with twin grips (a drum magazine is seen at corner of table) ; Colt automatic pistol; Remington pump gun; 38 Police special; and Remington semiautomatic rifle. (World War 2 time period.)
Students at FBI Academy Quantico,Virginia, United States going through a pistol drill. Group firing from different angles and positions. Instructor in stand speaks over PA system. August 1942. (World War II period).
Vincent Jules Auriol, President of France, is ceremonially escorted into a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress, where he is about to speak. He is followed by Vice President Alben W. Barkley and House Speaker, Sam Rayburn (who later take their places as presiding officers). The audience gives Auriol a standing ovation, with applause. continuing, as he ascends the podium. Barkley and Rayburn are seated behind him. President Auriol's remarks, as reported in the press (not heard in this clip, which has no sound) focus on the need to reject isolationism in the postwar world. Among other things, he reportedly tells the joint session of Congress the French people have learned from bitter experience that "isolation is death" and that "right without might is powerless." The Congress applauds him after his address.
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