International Civil Air Patrol Cadets Exchange (CAP) Program in Maryland,United States. General Smith and party dine at the Andrews Air Force Base (AFB) Officers Club. General Beau in the line at buffet table. Cadets with three girls in food line. Other personnel in food line. General Smith and wife seated at table. General Beau eats food. Cadets seated with their girl friends. Foreign cadets eat and talk with girls. Orchestra or band musicians play music at the Andrews Air Force Base Officers Club. View of two saxophone players.
Major events of the year 1959. United States Vice President Richard Nixon with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev where they engaged in the so-called "Kitchen debate" at United States Trade and Cultural Fair in Moscow, Soviet Union. Nixon talks to Khrushchev leading to the former's visit to United States. Khrushchev arrives in United States and President Dwight D Eisenhower welcomes him at the airport. Soldiers march as the Presidential motorcade follows them. President Eisenhower and Premier Khrushchev after a meeting at Camp David in Maryland.
Opening scene is an animated map showing Coast Guard Stations on Long Island, New York and on New Jersey coasts. Aerial view of Coast Guard Station Number 75. Narrator says manual life boats are launched into the surf from this Station. Camera pans closeup over the station, showing its buildings. Aerial view of inlet on South shore of Long Island from which powered life boats can launch into calm waters. Aerial view of the Fire Island (Long Island) Coast Guard Station with launching runway for power boats. Ground level closeup of the Fire Island Station. A power lifeboat being launched down its runway. Water level view of the power lifeboat speeding along the inlet towards the open sea. View from a height of the path the power lifeboat will follow to the sea. Change of scene shows map of life guard stations along Eastern shore of Maryland, the coast of Virginia and area around the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, with focus on cities of Norfolk and Newport News. It also extends South to outer islands of North Carolina. Battered hulk of a ship in surf in this area.
Congressman Richard Nixon and Chief Investigator Robert E. Stripling of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) examine evidence found at the Maryland farm of Whittaker Chambers. The microfilms, intended for delivery to a Soviet spy network, were hidden in pumpkins at the farm and later became known as the "Pumpkin Papers." View of pumpkin patch at the farm and the farm house. View of Whittaker Chambers testifying before the committee. Stripling and Nixon seated together at a table. Nixon holds a magnifying glass that he is using the view the film strip.
U.S. President Richard Nixon in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington DC. President Nixon with E.P.S. and Maryland State Policemen who had assisted in protecting the White House when a stolen Army helicopter was landed on the White House lawn. The President shakes hands and talks with them.
U.S. Capital ships practicing for the invasion of Tarawa in World War 2. A battleship fires her secondary battery of 5-inch/45 caliber (maybe USS Colorado, BB-45). Battleship, USS Maryland, BB-46, fires her main battery of 16-inch/45 caliber guns.
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