Soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army (the Old Guard) perform at a nighttime event. The fife and drum corps parade. A precision drill team performs. Band plays. Event ends with fireworks. Washington monument is visible in distance.
King Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia during a visit to Washington DC. King Faisal and his party leave the Saudi embassy in a motorcade, escorted by motorcycle police, enroute to visit the U.S. Capitol. They pass notable landmarks on the way, which are described in an Arabic narration. The King is hosted at a luncheon with the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, including Senators James William Fulbright and Bourke B. Hickenlooper.
King Faisal of Saudi Arabia during a visit to Washington DC. King Faisal waves as he arrives at an informal luncheon and press conference, hosted by the Washington press corps. Members of the press applaud. The King makes some remarks and concludes his speech by saying that the time spent with President Johnson were the happiest and most delightful in his life . The King is given a formal sendoff on departure, including military honors and 21 gun salute. U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey represents the American people during these formalities. King Faisal boards a helicopter, waves, and the helicopter takes off, ending his visit to Washington, DC.
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the chapel at Georgia Warm Springs Foundation in Warm Springs, Georgia. Cars parked on the road side. President Roosevelt arrives at the new chapel and drives up footpath to the door. Closeup of license plate on the President's 1938 Ford convertible (with hand controls) reads 'Georgia FDR 1938'. Following the dedication service, the President is seen standing supported by door of his car, as he shakes hands with Rt. Rev. Henry J. Mikell, D.D., Bishop of Atlanta. Standing nearby are Rev. J.D.C. Wilson, Rector of St. Mark's Episcopal Church in LaGrange, Georgia, and FDR's neighbor and friend, and former owner of Warm Springs, Georgia Mustian Wilkins, who donated the funds for the chapel. Scene shifts to large group of polio victims, in wheel chairs. Closeup of President Roosevelt. Group of polio victims , in their wheel chairs, posing outside a Foundation building, with McCarthy Cottage and the E.T. Curtis Cottage in background.
U.S. 15th Infantry troops return from China to Tacoma, Washington. People on port. A ship carrying U.S. troops approaches the port. Unidentified planes in flight. U.S. troops stand on the deck of the ship. A soldiers looks through a porthole. Civilians, officers, officials at the port. U.S. troops get into trucks.
U.S. cadets on a Cuban gunboat in Miami, Florida. U.S. soldiers march at port. A Cuban gunboat at the port. U.S. cadets and officers embark the boat. Sailors lean on the rails of the boat. Cadets on deck wave. The boat leaves the port.
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