President Dwight D Eisenhower meets United States diplomats at the White House. The President along with Secretary of State John Dulles talk to the newly confirmed Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Charles” Chip” E. Bohlen. Cameraman taking a video. Ambassador Charles Bohlen and President Eisenhower shakes hands before Ambassador Bohlen departs the White House. President Eisenhower meets the first female Ambassador to Italy, Clare Boothe Luce. Ambassador Luce departs.
President Dwight Eisenhower revives the custom of Easter egg rolling on the White House lawn. The White House in Washington DC. Children and adults gathered on the lawns. The President and his family join the celebration. His grandchildren Dwight David II and Barbara Ann take part in the egg rolling. His grand daughter Susan Elaine in Mamie Eisenhower's lap. A lady on a stretcher who fainted in the chaos to get close to the President. Children with baskets of eggs. A little girls eats an egg.
President Harry S Truman awards Congressional Medals of Honor at the White House in Washington DC. A gathering at the White House. Officials and awardees with their families. The recipients are Marine Captain Carl Sitter (standing left of the President when all three men are together) and Reginald Myers (standing right of the President). The President awards the Medal of Honor to each of the two officers. The officers shake hands and pose with the President. Officers with their families after receiving the Medals. Sitter holding his son and pictured with his wife. Myers' wife, Margaret, and daughter, Susan, and son, Scott. Myers holding his son, Scott. Major Myers was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor while serving as Executive Officer, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, in the vicinity of HAGARU-RI, KOREA, November 29, 1950, while commanding a group of 80 men who were stragglers and missing from other units. Major Myers' makeshift unit successfully denied the Chinese Communists the possession of EAST HILL, which dominated the key crossroads in the withdrawal -- attack in another direction -- by U.S. Marines and Army units from the Chosin Reservoir. Captain Sitter's unit relieved Major Myers' unit in the same battle. Sitter received e medal for his actions as a commanding officer during a two-day battle at Hagaru-Ki, Korea in November 1950. The fighting lasted 36 hours, and Sitter endured grenade burns to his face, arms and chest. He refused to evacuate as the fight continued. More than half of his company was killed, wounded or captured, but a successful defense of the area was mounted by U.S. soldiers.
Administration of Anesthesia at the Lennox Hill Hospital in New York. Sign on the door reads 'Anesthesia'. Doctor prepares the syringe for anesthesia. Doctor fills the syringe. He holds the rubber inhaler over the patient's mouth. Equipment near the patient. Doctor and nurse administer the anesthesia. They take off the strap, put the oxygen mask on the patient, and adjust equipment. The patient loses consciousness gradually.
Doctors and nurses prepare for an operation at the Lenox Hill Hospital Hospital (100 E 77th St, New York, NY 10075, United States) in New York. Sign on door reads: 'Operating Room'. Nurses prepare sterilized instruments and towels. Nurses wearing surgical masks arrange sterilized towels. They handle sterilized instruments wearing gloves. A nurse carries a tray of sterilized instruments from the sterile room. Chief Surgeon Dr. Otto Pickhardt dries his hands with a towel. A nurse helps him put on a surgical coat. Doctor powders his hands and puts on rubber gloves. Assistant doctors wash their hands with alcohol.
An anesthetist and a nurse administer blood transfusion at Lenox Hill Hospital (100 E 77th St, New York, NY 10075, United States) in New York. Anesthetist and nurses wheel patient from operating room. A nurse carries the drip bottle. The anesthetist and nurse administer blood transfusion on the patient's arm. The doctor watches the pulse and checks the patient's eyes. Bottle of blood and blood dripping. The nurse and the patient.
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