A doctor examines George Bocklet as a strange disease takes inches off George's height, while it increases the size of his skull, Los Angeles, California. Doctor measures George's head. George wears a hat. (NOTE: George Bocklet's condition was later diagnosed as Paget's Disease.)
The use of walkie talkie hand held two way radios at a hospital in San Francisco, California. A man explains the functioning of the walkie talkie radios to the doctors and the nurses. Operator seated at the switch board. A doctor receives a reporting signal from the early model pager, via a beep, and can hear information from the switchboard operator and respond. A mother hears the wails of her new born baby through the walkie talkie as it serves the role of early baby monitor.
Rocket sled test of aircraft ejection seat, at Edwards Air Force Base, California. Engineers put a helmet and oxygen mask over a dummy's head. Rocket sled accelerates and ejection seat actuates. Seat seen flying through the air and finally hitting the ground. Braking head on the sled creates wave of water as it slows. Ejection seat and damaged head of the dummy on the ground. A pilot sits in cockpit of an airplane.
U.S. President Richard Nixon talks about the Watergate tapes during a press conference in San Clemete, California. He is questioned by a journalist on the exposure of the tapes, and a survey which revealed that he was wrong to make the tapes. President Nixon responds stating that he isn't surprised since Americans do not approve of recording conversations. He talks about the recording capacity in the White House and Camp David, and dismantling and resetting of the system for national security reasons. He also states that the system has existed during the time of President Lyndon Johnson and President John F. Kennedy.
U.S. President Richard Nixon talks about the Watergate tapes during a press conference in San Clemente, California. A Journalist seeks an explanation from the President regarding the warning given to him by FBI's (Federal Bureau of Investigation) acting Director L. Patrick Gray on July 6, 1972. President Nixon talks about Gray's report that his top aides weren't cooperating and meetings between Gray and General Vernon A Walters. He also states his directive to go ahead with the investigation and the involvement of CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) in the process.
U.S. President Richard Nixon talks about the Watergate tapes during a press conference in San Clemente, California. Journalist Tom Jarriel seeks an explanation from the President regarding his meeting with the Assistant Attorney General Henry Petersen, the head of the Criminal Division on April 15 regarding evidence against his top aides. The journalist also wants the president to clarify that even after accepting the resignation of Mr. H. R. Haldeman and Mr. Ehrlichman why did the president involve Mr. Haldeman while listening to those confidential tapes. The president clarifies that he involved Mr. Haldeman to hear only those recorded tapes in which conversations were been carried out between all three of them -- the President, Mr Haldeman and John Dean. They did so to prepare themselves to respond appropriately to the allegations made by Mr. Dean. Another journalist questions the President regarding his failure to make the tapes available to the Senate Committee or the special prosecutor and whether he could let the public see a report about the tapes. The President confirms hearing of the tapes by Mr. Right. He believes that the hearing of tapes either by a judge, before a camera or Senate Committee is against the principle of confidentiality. He believes that the President must conduct affairs with his associates in his office with regard to the principle of confidentiality, irrespective of the fact whether it is a tape or any presidential paper.
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