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President Carter and his wife welcome Israeli Prime Minister Begin and his wife during the latter's visit to Washington DC.

U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in Washington DC, United States. The U.S. flag on the White House. A large crowd gathered outside the White House. A woman among the crowd taking pictures. U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife walking through a group of people. U.S. President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter greet Prime Minister Begin and his wife. Prime Minister Begin shakes hands with other officials. Other officials standing behind them. The flags of the U.S. and Israel. An U.S. military honor guard marches. U.S. President Jimmy Carter speaks into microphones at a podium. Prime Minister Begin standing beside him. The wives of the President and the Prime Minister standing behind them. A large crowd in the background on the White House lawn. President Jimmy Carter welcomes the Prime Minister of Israel and his wife, in Washington as part of middle east peace talks. The President says that he has been encouraged by Prime Minister Begin's statement that this year might be a year of efforts that would bring permanent peace and security to the Middle East. He says that they share a common goal of finding peace and this binds the two nations together. The President says that they are honored with their presence and welcome them as their guests. The crowd applauds. Prime Minister Begin speaks into the microphones. He thanks the President. Prime Minister Begin says that they yearn for peace and shall do all things possible to bring real peace to them and their neighbors. The Prime Minister says that he sees President Carter not only as a citizen of a mighty country but also as the defender of the free world. He thanks the U.S. President at the end of his speech. The men shake hands. View of the crowd applauding. President Carter waves to the crowd.

Date: 1977, July 19
Duration: 6 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070073
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
Regional issues are discussed by world leaders during the Moscow Summit

Regional issues are discussed during the Moscow Summit on Soviet troops in Afghanistan, the Iran-Iraq War, Middle East Peace, and Nicaragua cease fire. Soviet Union army troops in Afghanistan. A Russian tank is stationed. A camel wearing a mask in the foreground. Soviet soldiers marching. United States President Ronald Reagan speaks on the Soviet Union's decision on the removal of the soldiers from Afghanistan. “The next few months will be no time for complacency, no time to sit back and congratulate ourselves. The Soviets have rarely before--and not at all in more than three decades--left a country, once occupied. They have often promised to leave, but rarely in their history, and then only under pressure from the West, have they actually done it.” President Reagan said. Soviet Army trucks and tanks are driven. Soviet soldiers patrolling on streets in a town in Afghanistan. A United States officer in a press conference. A Soviet aircraft in flight dropping supplies. Soviet soldiers on tanks. Scene changes to Iranian and Iraqi soldiers as they fire artillery, rockets, and from tanks during the Iran-Iraq War. Scene of United Nations meeting in progress with George Schultz representing the United States. Missile fired by United States Navy ship at Iranian target. View of firefighting operations and wreckage of Iranian oil platforms following U.S. missile attack in Operation Nimble Archer on 19 October 1987. The U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz visits places in the Middle East, working to convince Arabs and the Israelis about a peace agreement. Scenes in Nicaragua, as a cease fire with the contra rebels is signed by Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto Ortega, on March 23 in Sapoa. Figures seen include Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, Joao Baena Soares, (General Secretary of the Organization of American States), Cardinal Miguel Obando Y Bravo, and Alfredo Cesar, director of Nicaraguan Resistance.

Date: 1988
Duration: 3 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032114
A large number of refugees flee East Berlin under the regime of Communist rule and reach West Berlin, in Germany.

Many refugees flee East Berlin under the regime of Communist rule and reach West Berlin, in Germany. Many refugees walk near the Brandenburg Gate. Bernauer Strasse near the Berlin Wall. Russian and East German soldiers guard the Berlin Wall line of demarcation between East and West Berlin. Families communicate across the line and relatives weep. A young girl weeps as she views relatives across the divided east and west Germany. A wedding bride waves to her parents in East Germany. A woman (Frieda Schulz) is pulled at the same time from above by east German authorities, and by West German helpers from below as she jumps from the window of her home on Bernauer Strasse to escape into West Germany. Scenes of several successful escapes by East Germans through barbed wire at the border, as they reach the hands of waiting helpers in West Germany.

Date: 1962, January 1
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056469
Spectators gather to watch five times middle weight champion Sugar Ray Robinson fight Terry Gownes at a boxing match, London.

Five times middle weight champion Sugar Ray Robinson fights Terry Gownes at a boxing match, London. Spectators watch the boxers delivering punches to each other. Women cheer for their player. Support staff of Gownes rush inside the ring after the referee declares him the winner. Crowd applauds the Old Master Robinson.

Date: 1962, September 27
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037034
Contrast of living conditions in New York City; children playing, cars parked and people sit outside their houses in New York City.

Elevated views and busy street views of automobile and pedestrian traffic on streets of New York City in the late 1930s. A streetcar stopped in the street. A roadside news stand. Men in suits and women in dresses walking on sidewalks near office buildings and stores in New York City. Children of late primary school or middle school age walking to school. Children exiting a school bus to go to school Two boys wrestle as a group of boys gathers around and encourages them. Girls play a game like "London Bridge is falling down." Scene changes to a farm field with a farmer plowing a field with his tractor. A farmer cuts crops with a sickle. Brief view of the main street in a small town somewhere in the United States, likely east. Scene changes again to a neighborhood with nice homes and two girls play skipping rope at a house. A woman prepares toast in a electric toaster. Vegetables and food items seen on shelves of an open refrigerator in a home. Scene changes to dense urban tenements and scenes of relative poverty in New York City. Elevated view looking out over dense tenements and apartment homes. Two young women sit on sleeping cots on a rooftop 1930s cars parked on a narrow street among crowded city dwellings, and and people sit outside their houses. Kids playing "stoop ball" throwing a ball against steps of their dwelling on the lower east side of Manhattan. A movie promotion poster advertises "Yellow Jack" playing at the Loews Commodore Theatre . Children play.

Date: 1939
Duration: 4 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035672