From the Ford Motor Company produced film, "Scenes From the World of Tomorrow" documenting the 1939-1940 World's Fair in New York City. View of buildings of the New York World's Fair of 1940. The Brooklyn Bridge. Aerial view of Manhattan Island, New York City. Skyscrapers of New York City including the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building. New York Harbor and ships in the harbor. View of the buildings of the New York Worlds Fair in the distance in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, as seen from high in a skyscraper of New York City. The Fair's Trylon and Perisphere stand out. People walk along the sides of fountains and waterways at the fair. Crowds milling about, bands marching, dancers performing. Flags of many nations flying on the flag poles. Celebration of the 150th anniversary of George Washington, as the first President of the United States and a statue of George Washington. A bus moves on the street. Fountains and a small bridge near a waterway. Pavilions of nations of England, Japan, and Italy. The USA building and some of the buildings of U.S. States including Maine and Florida. Fountains and waterways of the fair. Woman and two girls eat ice cream cones. A Raymond Loewy - designed S1 experimental streamlined locomotive created for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Pavilions of American Telephone & Telegraph and of United States Steel Corporation, also of Westinghouse, Goodrich, Chrysler, and General Motors.
U.S. President Richard Nixon addresses U.S. citizens on the Watergate scandal in Washington, DC. The President questions upon the occurrence of the Watergate scandal and whom should one blame. He finds 1972 as the year of crucially important decisions, of intense negotiations and of new directions in achieving goals for bringing peace to United States. He states that the Presidency stands before politics. He has limited his appearances in campaigns. He believes that the culprits must bear the liability and pay the penalty. He finds it cowardly to blame his sub-ordinates, to whom he had delegated the responsibility, for the improper actions that took place within his campaign organization. Instead he accepts all the charges as he believes that the man at the top of an organization is the one who is responsible for all. The President takes a pledge to ensure a fair justice in the Watergate scandal.
United States President John F. Kennedy arrives at the Homestead Air Force Base in Florida, United States, during Cuban Missile Crisis. VC-137C No 26000 plane lands at the runway strip. President Kennedy followed by General Farris Bryant and U.S. Army General Maxwell D. Taylor alight from the plane. The dignitaries greeted welcome by General Thomas Power, General Walter C. Sweeney and civilian dignitaries. President then shakes hands with officers in receiving line. President gets into a convertible and talks to other officers.
JCS Strike Command Exercise Bold Shot at Eglin Air Base in Florida, United States. United States Air Force Convair C-131 aircraft, equipped with belly radome, takes off from the runway during the exercise.
Bold Shot exercise at Elgin Air Base in Florida, United States. United States Air Force F-105B aircraft comes in for landing and makes go-around, flying low over the runway. It comes back around and lands deploying a drogue parachute . Plane taxis past a building and wooded area. Parachute detaches from the tail and drops on the ground. Plane turns and taxis on parallel taxiway..
President Nixon walks with U.S. civilians on a city street and listens to their problems. The civilians lined up outside shops of grocery and eatables. President Nixon discusses with Cost of Living Council to bring down the inflation rate in the United States. Industrial development and export business improves. Workers work in factories and farmers in farms. Farmer driving tractor on field. Car assembly line workers work on an automobile production line. President Nixon addresses the U.S. Congress and urging Congress to make reforms. Vice President Spiro Agnew confers with President Nixon in his office. Nixon travels through land, sea and air and works for controlling air pollution and water pollution. A farm crop duster airplane dusting crops. Heavy traffic on a highway filled with cars. Workers in an automobile emissions testing laboratory. From a pro-Nixon "documentary" called "The Nixon Years: Change Without Chaos" covering President Richard Nixon's first four years in office. Released during his 1972 reelection campaign.
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