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Timeline summary of the events and achievements of President Eisenhower's administration.

"The Eisenhower Story": A pre-election pro-Eisenhower propaganda film designed to highlight Eisenhower's qualifications for reelection as President in the 1956 election. Factory whistle blows and men entering a factory. Car chassis factory assembly line. Locomotive engineer blows train whistle and railroad locomotive with cultivators on a flat bed car. Cultivators harvesting grain. Woman carries groceries from shop to a 1950's sedan car parked on street. View of 1950's automobile highway traffic and aerial view of highways being built under his plans for highway construction and road expansion. View of Eisenhower at swearing in ceremony during his inauguration as President in 1952. In his speech, Eisenhower emphasizes that, "we stand ready to engage with any and all others in joint efforts to remove the causes of mutual fear and distrust among nations..." Newspaper headline 'Korean Truce Signed' at time of armistice during Korean War. American troops disembark ship and greet family. Secretary of State Dulles talking with German chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Secretary John Dulles seen also with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Eisenhower and Churchill at Geneva conference, along with Soviet leader Khrushchev and Marshal Nikolai Bulganin. Eisenhower speaks before United Nations about efforts to form an "atom pool." He notes United States "determination to help solve the fearful atomic dilemma...." Newspaper headlines 'Eisenhower Signs Sea Way Bill'. Construction of Saint Lawrence Seaway. 'Budget' and 'tax cuts' news in newspapers, including headline, "White House ends all wage controls...." Farmer plows field with tractor. Construction of new buildings and highway construction through Eisenhower programs. Views of the newly established Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Workers filing cards in giant room of file drawers and cabinets. Nurse draws vaccine into syringe. Children are vaccinated (likely polio vaccine). President Eisenhower meets leaders from different countries at White House, including England's Queen Mother and King Paul, Queen Frederica of Greece, and Prime Minister St-Laurent of Canada. Eisenhower at press conference discussing disarmament notes importance of the "elimination of opportunity of surprise attack." View of shore towers and listening platforms and missiles rising on platforms to protect America from attacks. First nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus (SSN-571 ) launched on January 21, 1954 by Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower in Connecticut. Plane taking off from aircraft carrier USS Forrestal (CV-59) while underway at sea. Formation of Northrop F-89 Scorpion aircraft in flight.

Date: 1956, October 5
Duration: 6 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040138
Marshal Tito at a conference with other delegates in Belgrade.

A U.S. plane lands in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, during World War 2. British and U.S. civilian and military officials disembark. Delegates around a conference table. Marshal Tito, leader of Yugoslav Partisan forces, lights his pipe. Men behind exchange documents. Delegates sign the documents. Marshal Tito makes a short address.

Date: 1945, March 20
Duration: 3 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040267
Brigadier General McLean and General Vilibet discuss map of Balkans and Mediterranean.

Brigadier General McLean at work in his office. General Vilibet walks in the office. McLean converses with General Vilibet. McLean calls for a map, which is brought by British major. McLean and Vilibet discuss map of Balkans and Mediterranean.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 2 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040269
Mr Leo Amery at a conference with Maharajah of Kashmir and Sir Feroz Khan Noon (WW2)

Exterior of India Office. Sign 'India Office'. Office of Mr Leo Amery, the British Secretary of State for India. Mr. Leo Amery in conference with Maharajah of Kashmir, Hari Singh and Sir Feroz Khan Noon. Mr Amery discusses the Indian question. Both Maharajah of Kashmir and Sir Feroz Khan Noon, representatives of India at the war cabinet. Exterior of India Office. Sir Feroz Khan Noon leaves accompanied by his advisors. Mr Amery leaves. He gets into his car. (World War II period)

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 2 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040272
Petroleum Advisor Max W Thornburg talks with Henry Hazlitt and William Bradford Huie in Longines Chronoscope.

Host Frank Knight speaks in a television program Longines Chronoscope. Max W Thornburg, Petroleum Adviser, Department of State, interviewed by Henry Hazlitt and William Bradford Huie. Thornburg talks about his experience in the Middle East oil industry and credentials as Petroleum Adviser, causes of the oil nationalization crisis in Iran and British interference in Iranian politics. Further he speaks about failure of effective Anglo-Iranian oil policy, and lack of U.S. corporate initiatives in developing realistic oil agreements in the Middle East.

Date: 1951, July 9
Duration: 12 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040292
Various scenes depicting animated maps of China, seaplane landing in San Francisco, and streets in Beijing

Flag of the Republic of China (ROC) flying. Map shows travel routes between West Coast USA and Shanghai or British colony of Hong Kong. A seaplane or flying boat takes off. Seaplane flying over Golden Gate Bridge. Chinese American women wave at plane. Aerial view of a palace, pagoda, and surrounding grounds in China. Animated map comparing the sizes of United States and China. Yankee clippers underway at sea. Map shows position of Canton (Guangzhou). View of Canton harbor from a ferry. View of ferry's rail. Map of Beijing, also known as Peking or Peiping. Streets and buildings in Beijing.

Date: 1937
Duration: 4 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040297